Politicization of Islam Reconstructing Identity, State, Faith, and Community in the Late Ottoman State

Name: Politicization of Islam Reconstructing Identity, State, Faith, and Community in the Late Ottoman State
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ISBN: 9780195136180

ISBN-10: 0195136187

ISBN-13: 9780195136180

Edition: 2001

Authors: Kemal H. Karpat

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Combining international and internal perspectives, this book analyses the transformation of the Ottoman Empire over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It views privatization of state lands and the increase of domestic and foreign trade as key factors in the rise of a Muslim middle class, which, increasingly aware of its economic interests and communal roots, then attempted to reshape the government to reflect its ideals. These ideals straddled modernist-Islamic and traditionalist cultural outlooks, and the religious and cultural differences between the Muslim and non-Muslim middle classes turned into class differences and ended in separatism. The book attaches special importance to a…

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List price: $210.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/3/2001
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 544
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.21" long x 1.60" tall
Weight: 1.936
Language: English



Preface


Note on Pronunciation


The Politicization of Islam


Introduction



Popular Roots of Islamism (pan-Islamism)



Peripheral Islam and the Caliphal Center



The Legacy of the Past



The New Middle Classes and the Naksï¿½bandia



Knowledge, Press, and the Popularization of Islamism



The War of 1877-1878 and Diverging Perceptions of Islam and Europe



Abdulhamid II



The Sultan's Advisers and the Integration of Arabs and Immigrants



Ottoman-European Relations and Islamism



Dynasty, State, and Islamism



The Harameyin, the Caliphate, and the British Search for an Arab Caliph



The Caliphate and Ottoman Foreign Policy in Africa



Turkism and Pan-Islamism in Russia and the Ottoman Empire



The Reconstruction of State, Community-Nation, and Identity



Ottomanism, Fatherland, and the "turkishness" of the State



From Religious to Ethnic-National Identity



Ziya Gï¿½kalp, Yusuf Akï¿½ura, Fuat Kï¿½prï¿½lï¿½


Conclusion


Notes


Select Bibliography


Index