TY - GEN T1 - Turkey, Islam, nationalism, and modernity : a history, 1789-2007 A1 - Findley, Carter V., 1941- LA - English PP - New Haven ; London PB - Yale University Press YR - 2010 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn805654710 AB - Book Description: Publication Date: August 30, 2011. "Turkey, Islam, Nationalism, and Modernity" reveals the historical dynamics propelling two centuries of Ottoman and Turkish history. As mounting threats to imperial survival necessitated dynamic responses, ethnolinguistic and religious identities inspired alternative strategies for engaging with modernity. A radical, secularizing current of change competed with a conservative, Islamically committed current. Crises sharpened the differentiation of the two streams, forcing choices between them. The radical current began with the formation of reformist governmental elites and expanded with the advent of 'print capitalism', symbolized by the privately owned, Ottoman-language newspapers. The radicals engineered the 1908 Young Turk revolution, ruled empire and republic until 1950, made secularism a lasting 'belief system', and still retain powerful positions. The conservative current gained impetus from three history-making Islamic renewal movements, those of Mevlana Halid, Said Nursi, and Fethullah Gulen. Powerful under the empire, Islamic conservatives did not regain control of government until the 1980s. By then they, too, had their own influential media. Findley's reassessment of political, economic, social and cultural history reveals the dialectical interaction between radical and conservative currents of change, which alternately clashed and converged to shape late Ottoman and republican Turkish history. OP - 527 CN - DR557 .F56 2010 SN - 9780300152623 SN - 0300152620 SN - 9780300152609 SN - 0300152604 KW - Turkey : History : 19th century. KW - Turkey : History : 20th century. KW - Turkey : Politics and government : 19th century. KW - Turkey : Politics and government : 20th century. KW - Nationalism : Turkey : History : 19th century. KW - Nationalism : Turkey : History : 20th century. KW - Secularism : Turkey : History : 19th century. KW - Secularism : Turkey : History : 20th century. KW - Islam and state : Turkey : History : 19th century. KW - Islam and state : Turkey : History : 20th century. KW - Empire ottoman : Histoire : 19e siècle. KW - Turquie : Histoire. KW - Empire ottoman : Politique et gouvernement : 19e siècle. KW - Empire ottoman : Politique et gouvernement : 20e siècle. KW - HISTORY : General. KW - Islam and state KW - Nationalism KW - Politics and government KW - Secularism KW - Turkey KW - 1800-1999 KW - History ER -