| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 234 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome. rdacc http://rdaregistry.info/termList/RDAColourContent/1003 |
| Description |
text file rdaft http://rdaregistry.info/termList/fileType/1002 |
| Series |
International library of twentieth century history ; 27 |
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International library of twentieth century history ; 27.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-229) and index. |
| Contents |
Reactionary Islam: the Menemen Incident (1930) -- Turkish Islam: the reform of Turkish Ezan (1932-33) -- Turkish Islam contested: the Ezan debate and secularism (1950) -- Reactionary Islam as violent threat: the Malatya Incident (1952) -- Reactionary Islam as creeping threat: Said Nursi and his disciples (1959-60) -- Turkish Islam reappropriated: Alevism in alliance with Kemalism (1966) -- Conclusion. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Summary |
Kemal Ataturk's Republic of Turkey was set up in 1923 as a secular state, sweeping political, social, cultural and religious reforms followed. Islam was no longer the official religion of the state, the Sultanate was abolished and all Turkish citizens were declared equal without reference to religion. But though, in Azak's phrase, 'secularism was the central tenet of Kemalism', fear of a resurgent, even fanatical, Islam, continued to haunt the state. Azak's revisionist and original study sets out the struggle between religion and secularism but shows how Ataturk laboured for an idealised 'Turk. |
| Local Note |
Bloomsbury Publishing Bloomsbury Open Access |
| Subject |
Atatürk, Kemal, 1881-1938 -- Influence.
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Atatürk, Kemal, 1881-1938. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJbM3MwvtpghxYTM9MpF8C
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Kemalism.
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Islam -- Turkey.
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Islam and secularism -- Turkey.
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Islam and politics -- Turkey.
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Turkey -- History -- 1918-1960.
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Turkey -- Religion -- 20th century.
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20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Political Advocacy.
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Islam.
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Islam and politics.
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Islam and secularism.
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Kemalism.
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Religion.
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Turkey. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJxmHG9jJjCTM3y4pFRqcP
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Säkularismus.
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Islam.
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Kemalismus.
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Türkei.
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Azak, Umut. Islam and secularism in Turkey. London ; New York : I.B. Tauris ; New York : Distributed in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan, 2010 9781848852631 (DLC) 2010281246 (OCoLC)436265558 |
| ISBN |
9781441676610 (electronic book) |
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1441676619 (electronic book) |
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9780857713773 |
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0857713779 |
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9781848852631 |
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1848852630 |
| Standard No. |
9786612881701 |
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3607776 |
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