dc.contributor.advisor | Heper, Metin | |
dc.contributor.author | Usluer, Ayşe Sözen | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-11-21T13:23:59Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-11-21T13:23:59Z | |
dc.date.copyright | 2016-10 | |
dc.date.issued | 2016-10 | |
dc.date.submitted | 2016-11-07 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11693/32533 | |
dc.description | Cataloged from PDF version of article. | en_US |
dc.description | Thesis (Ph.D.): Bilkent University, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, İhsan Doğramacı Bilkent University, 2016. | en_US |
dc.description | Includes bibliographical references (leaves 232-242). | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | This dissertation studies how modern Muslim individuals have changed the
trajectory of political Islam in Turkey since the 1990s. This multi-case study, through a
sample of students, entrepreneurs, and women, aims at exploring the daily agenda of
Muslims and their unintentional role in shaping politics and society. The study examines
critically that the literature on Islamist resurgence, and its transformation, is dominated by an
emphasis on the struggle between seculars and Islamists. This study firstly problematizes
how one assesses the many changes taking place in the Islamist trajectory, in the framework
of secular/Islamic division, and then it disregards the tensions taking place within Islamic
circles. Through focusing on inner circle debates, the study seeks to discover what is really
changing in political Islam and what continues to be the same. The findings are twofold.
First, we establish that the daily life practices of modern Muslims yield new understandings
on the state, society, Islamic economy and the gender relations. Moreover, differentiating
deeply from orthodox Islamist approach, these new configurations of concepts and contexts
in Islamic circles result in the undermining of Islamist ‘authority’. Second, despite the new
readings and interpretations of Islam, Islam still plays an important role in the (daily) life of
Muslims—embedded in the capillaries of Muslim societies, it has capacity to influence politics and society, while new designs in the public sphere, in accordance with the practice
of Muslims’ private lives, prevent not only the full secularization and liberalization of
Muslim politics, but also cause the rise of conservatism in Muslim societies. | en_US |
dc.description.statementofresponsibility | by Ayşe Sözen Usluer. | en_US |
dc.format.extent | ix, 252 leaves. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | English | en_US |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | en_US |
dc.subject | Daily life | en_US |
dc.subject | Islamist transformation | en_US |
dc.subject | Modern Muslim individuals | en_US |
dc.subject | Muslim politics | en_US |
dc.subject | Turkey | en_US |
dc.title | The quest for new muslim politics: Turkey since the 1990s | en_US |
dc.title.alternative | Müslüman politikalarında yeni arayışlar: 1990lardan bugüne Türkiye | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
dc.department | Department of Political Science and Public Administration | en_US |
dc.publisher | Bilkent University | en_US |
dc.description.degree | Ph.D. | en_US |
dc.identifier.itemid | B120305 | |
dc.embargo.release | 2019-11-04 | |