Under the banner of Islam : Turks, Kurds, and the limits of religious unity / Gülay Türkmen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Türkmen, Gülay, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kurds--Turkey--Politics and government--21st century.

Kurds.

Islam and politics--Turkey--21st century.

Islam and politics.

Ethnic relations.

Kurds--Politics and government.

Politics and government.

Turkey--Politics and government--21st century.

Turkey.

Turkey--Ethnic relations--21st century.

Physical Description:

xiv, 186 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

"How do religious, ethnic, and national identities interact in religiously homogenous ethnic conflicts? Is it possible for religion to act as a resolution tool in such conflicts? Why? Why not? In search for answers to these questions, Under the Banner of Islam focuses on the ambivalent role Sunni Islam has played in Turkey's Kurdish conflict-both as a conflict-resolution tool and as a tool of resistance-in the last two decades. Relying mainly on participant observation in Civil Friday Prayers and 62 interviews conducted in three different cities in Turkey (Istanbul and the majority-Kurdish Diyarbakir and Batman) between June 2012 and June 2013, it demonstrates that Sunni Islam has had a very limited impact as a conflict-resolution tool in Turkey. Blending interview data with a detailed historical institutional analysis that goes back as early as the nineteenth century, it argues that the strength of Turkish and Kurdish nationalisms, the symbiotic relationship between Turkey's religious and political fields, religious elites' varying conceptualizations of religious and ethnic identities, and the recent political developments in the region (particularly the establishment of an autonomous Kurdish region, Rojava, in Syria) have all contributed to this outcome. The resulting narrative is not only a record of religion, ethnicity, and nationalism in Turkey's Kurdish conflict, but also an investigation of how ethnic and religious identities are negotiated in conflict resolution and how symbolic boundaries are drawn in ethnic conflict zones"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

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"The Ambivalence of the Sacred": Religion and Conflict Resolution

The Porous Borders of Religion and Ethnicity

The Shifting Borders of Religious and Political Fields

Organizational Structure

1. "Green Kemalism": The Evolving Role of Islam in the Kurdish Conflict

Kurdish Revolts in the Late Ottoman Period: Against Centralization?

Kurds in the Early Republican Period: Kurdish-Islamic Synthesis?

The Secularization of the Kurdish Movement: 1950-1978

Bringing Islam Back In: 1990-2002

2. "Islam as Cement": The Way Out?

"There Is Only One Nation and That Is the Nation of Abraham"

The Ummah That Never Was

AKP's Kurdish Policy: Neo-Ottoman Pan-Islamism

3. Muslim Kurds: The Case for Religio-Ethnic Identity

"God Could Have Created Us All the Same": Religious Roots of Ethnicity

Kurdish Islam Embodied: Civil Friday Prayers

Turkey's Religious Field in the 2000s: A Bourdieusian Analysis

Islam as a Tool of Resistance

4. "Only Turks Can Lead a Muslim Union": The Case for Ethno-Religious Identity

Ottomanism, Islamism, Turkism: The Birth Pangs of Turkish Nationalism

Turkish History Thesis and the Turkification of Islam

Turkey's Pending Dilemma: The Turkish-Islamic Synthesis

AKP's Transformation: "From `the Kurd's Quran to `the Turk's Flag'".

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Türkmen, Gülay, Under the banner of Islam?

ISBN:

9780197511817

0197511813

OCLC:

1192303378

Publisher Number:

99986945964