Browsing by Subject "Political history"

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From Islamic Radicalism to Islamic Capitalism: The Promises and Predicaments of Turkish-Islamic Entrepreneurship in a Capitalist System (The Case of İGİAD)
(2014) Madi, O.
The rise of Turkish Islamic capitalism, and with it an Islamic bourgeoisie and the accompanying lifestyle has profound implications for the Muslim world, since the Turkish Muslims have been backed by a relatively successful democratic and liberal system that has allowed them to integrate more easily into the global system. Focusing mainly on the members of the Islamic-oriented Association of Economic Entrepreneurship and Business Ethics (İGİAD), the aim of this article is to demonstrate the inherent (in)compatibility and contradictions between Islam and capitalism in contemporary Turkey, and by extension in the Muslim world. From the start, for the Turkish Muslim bourgeoisie, the burning questions were 'how to earn' and, more importantly, 'how to consume' within a capitalist system while still not transgressing Islamic boundaries. In order to overcome these challenges, the article argues that, rather than creating an 'alternative Islamic economic system', Islamic actors have reduced - in some cases, even eliminated - this discursive and ideological tension between Islam and capitalism by (a) trying to introduce Islamic morality into capitalism and (b) redefining both Islam and capitalism. Through these mechanisms they have also broadened and deepened Turkish modernity. © 2014 Taylor & Francis.
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History in the trench: The Ottoman Special Organization – Teşkilat-i Mahsusa literature
(Routledge, 2012) Safi, P.
Aside from a few exceptional works, studies on the subject of the Ottoman Special Organization (SO, Teşkilat-ı Mahsusa) are marred by confusing, vague, and inconsistent sets of arguments and assumptions. This may be attributed to certain methodological and linguistic shortcomings of particular studies and a general laziness in the use of existing primary and secondary sources. It is also an outcome of the degree to which contemporary political and ideological currents and concerns colour the nature of the historical inquiry into the subject. Based on a comprehensive and systematic critical reading of existing literature in the light of certain sets of hitherto unused archival material, the present study aims to re-open to discussion such historiographical problems both by revisiting the most speculative, and well-trodden, research topics in the literature, such as the very nature of the organization as well as its administrative features, and offering insights into the potential(s) of certain little-explored Turkish archives.
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Kocatepe Camii tarihi ve mimarisi
(Bilkent University, 2020) Sabuncu, Mehmet Akif; Dalbeler, Tuna; Gezer, Muhammet Musa; Akbaş, Ömer Taha; Özoğul, Ömer Faruk
Kocatepe Camii, yapımına 1967'de Ankara Kocatepe'de başlanan ve inşaatı 1987'de tamamlanarak halkın hizmetine açılan bir ibadethanedir. Bu çalışmada araştırma konusu olarak Kocatepe Camii'nin seçilmesinin sebebi, camiinin yapım aşamasından inşasının bitimine, mimarisinden sosyal faaliyetlerine birçok alanda etkili olması ve bir şekilde Türkiye gündeminde kalmayı başarmasıdır. Bu çalışmanın amacı Kocatepe Camii'nin uzun süren inşa süreciyle Türkiye tarihinin daha iyi okunmasına katkısunduğunu,mimari özellikleriyle Türk-İslam mimari gelişimine dair ipuçları verdiğini ve Ankara'daki sosyal ve kültürel faaliyetlere ev sahipliği yapmasıyla Başkent'te önemli bir merkez olduğunu göstermektir. Çalışmanın başlangıcında Kocatepe Camii'nin yapımına neden gereksinim duyulduğu konusunda bilgi verilmiş, dönemin siyasi aktörlerinin Kocatepe Camii'nin inşasındaki etkileri ortaya konmuştur. Sonrasında Kocatepe Camii'nin yaklaşık yirmi yıl süren inşa sürecinde yaşanan olaylar tartışılmış, camiinin inşa sürecinde değiştirilen projeler karşılaştırılmıştır. Son olarak Kocatepe Camii'nin mimari özelliklerinin Türk mimarisindeki yeri ve caminin günümüzde Ankara kültürel ve sosyal hayatındaki yeri incelenmiştir. Ayrıca Kocatepe Camii'nin mimarı Hüsrev Tayla'nın oğlu Levent Tayla ile yapılan röportaja da araştırmada yer verilmiştir.
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Outlook on non-muslim characters in the turkish novel (1900-1960)
(2015-10) Atabağsoy, Naim
This study focuses on the approaches towards non-Muslim characters in selected Turkish novels, published between 1900–1960. It also reviews the political, social and economic developments involving non-Muslims and aims to point out the significance of literary works in historical context. Non-Muslim citizens of the Ottoman Empire, who had been assumed to have an advantage over others in many areas, were defined as minorities by the declaration of Republic. The Treaty of Lausanne, by constituting the legal basis of this definition, plays a significant role in the establishment of the Republic. In this regard, the year 1923, when the Treaty was signed, is the theoretical focal point of the study. This study considers the prominent developments along the phases including government changes in the period of Republic and social events that are essentially breakpoints for non-Muslims, and in this way, it aims to reveal how those novels react to these transformation processes, through non-Muslim characters and discourses on non-Muslim identity they include. This study includes thirty novels from twenty five different authors, and when it comes to non-Muslims, generated implications in the novels –it is also possible to come across with novels reflecting a different, or even an opposite discourse– ,selected from an ideologically wide range, mostly overlap with the official discourse. Besides, it is observed that the forms of alienation concerning non-Muslim characters in novels generally correspond to each other and constitute a whole. This thesis study which, on one hand, examines the extent and content of the alienating discourse, attempts to analyze the relations between the discourses on non-Muslims in novels and the ones in political and social levels in detail during a period from the beginning of the twentieth century to the end of the Democrat Party Power.
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Politics of nationhood and the displacement of the founding Moment: contending histories of the Turkish nation
(Cambridge University Press, 2017) Çınar, A.; Taş, H.
This study examines the conception of nationhood developed by a political movement referred to as Ulusalclllk (nationalism), which emerged at the turn of the century. We focus on ways in which the Ulusalcl movement makes use of nation-building techniques to establish and propagate its own version of Turkish nationhood as one that is primordially secular and patriotic. This is expressed in its opposition to Islamism, Ottomanism, and what it sees as imperialist Western powers. We argue that the most significant technique Ulusalcl nationalists use to rebuild Turkish nationhood is a relocation of the nation's founding moment, from the official Kemalist one marked by the founding of the Republic in 1923 to the War of Independence fought against the European powers between 1919 and 1922. Our premise is that nationhood is ultimately the product of storytelling, and that the politics of nationhood involves the contentious production, dissemination, and negotiation of different stories and their corresponding founding moments. We analyze the story of Turkish nationhood told in the bestselling book Those Crazy Turks, which became the bible of the Ulusalcl movement. We argue that the Ulusalcl narration of Turkish nationhood interpellates a new national subject that is primordially secular, militaristically patriotic, and adamantly anti-Western. These are projected as essential qualities that must, at all cost, be upheld and defended against Islamist, Ottomanist, and Western powers that are conspiring to bring Turkey down. © 2017 Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History.
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A scion of the Crimean Khans in the Crimean war: the allied powers and the question of the future of the Crimea
(Routledge, 2013) Kirimli, H.
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Türkiye’de siyasi tarih yazıcılığı ve Mehmet Ö. Alkan
(Bilkent University, 2024) Saçaklı, Satuk Buğra; Çevik, Serpil Sena; Gençer, Doğan Cem; Öksüzoğlu, Eren Tarık; Can, Orhan Yılmaz
Bu çalışma, Türkiye’de siyasi tarih yazıcılığının ortaya çıkması ve gelişimini ortaya koymakla beraber siyasi tarih yazıcılığında etkili olmuş isimleri bütüncül bir bakış açısıyla yansıtmaktadır. 21. yüzyıl itibariyle siyasi tarih yazıcılığının geçirdiği değişimlere değinilmiş ve tarihin bu hür ve müstakil kolunun içinde Mehmet Ö. Alkan’ın bu alanyazınında anlamı ve önemi ifade edilmiştir.