A Turkish muslim between islamism and Turkish nationalism: Seyyid Ahmet Arvasi 1932–88
Date
2014
Authors
Aslan, Ö.
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Source Title
Turkish Studies
Print ISSN
1468-3849
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1743-9663
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Routledge
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15
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3
Pages
519 - 535
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English
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Abstract
Notwithstanding his enormous influence on the grassroots of the Turkish nationalist movement in its Islamic turn in the 1970s, Seyyid Ahmet Arvasi, a staunch nationalist and a pious Muslim at the same time, has remained an understudied intellectual. His oeuvre is left largely unexplored. He is either too simply associated with Türk-İslam Sentezi [Turkish-Islamic Synthesis] or treated as if the sole outcome of his intellectual labor was his three-volume Türk-İslam Ülküsü [Turkish-Islamic Ideal]. This article seeks to remedy this situation by studying critically his views on the particular issue of Turkish nationalism and Islam nexus based on his writings in their entirety. © 2014, Taylor & Francis.