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Islam and secularism in Turkey : Kemalism, religion and the nation state / Umut Azak

Azak, Umut,i1973- [Verfasser]

London [u.a.] : I.B. Tauris ;, 2010

Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.

1 Online-Ressource (xv, 234 pages) : Illustrations

International library of twentieth century history ; 27

Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-229) and index

978-1-4416-7661-0 ; 1-4416-7661-9 ; 978-0-85771-377-3 ; 0-85771-377-9 ; 978-1-84885-263-1

BE 8607 BE 8660 LB 46340 MH 62086 MH 62270

 

Türkei  Säkularismus  Islam  Kemalismus  Geschichte 1930-1966 

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.