From Caliphate to secular state : power struggle in the early Turkish Republic / Hakan Özoglu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Özoğlu, Hakan, 1964-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Atatürk, Kemal, 1881-1938.

Islam and politics.

History.

Secularism.

Nationalism.

Power (Social sciences).

Political culture.

Turkey--Politics and government--1918-1960.

Turkey.

Politics and government.

Atatürk, Kemal, 1881-1938--Assassination attempt, 1926.

Atatürk, Kemal.

Political culture--Turkey--History--20th century.

Power (Social sciences)--Turkey--History--20th century.

Nationalism--Turkey--History--20th century.

Panislamism.

Secularism--Turkey--History--20th century.

Islam and politics--Turkey--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

x, 218 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger, [2011]

Summary:

The emergence of the Republic of Turkey from the ashes of the Ottoman Empire involved an internal power struggle, the outcome of which was the perhaps surprising result of a militantly secular state that confined religion to the private sphere emerging out of a society that had been the seat of the Islamic caliphate for over four centuries. In this work, Ozoglu (history, U. of Central Florida) examines these internal power struggles in order to understand how such an outcome was possible, with his primary purpose being to explain the processes by which opposition in the new republic was silenced and how those processes in turn influenced the nature of the Kemalist state, which he argues was not a predetermined vision but a pragmatic synthesis of political realities and opportunities to silence the opposition. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780313379567

0313379564

9780313379574

0313379572

OCLC:

701807909