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The Enduring Hold of Islam in Turkey: The Revival of the Religious Orders and Rise of Erdogan

The Enduring Hold of Islam in Turkey: The Revival of the Religious Orders and Rise of Erdogan

Tonge, David S.

Hardcover

Religion General IslamGeneral Middle Eastern History

ISBN10: 1911723839
ISBN13: 9781911723837
Publisher: Hurst & Co.
Published: Jan 1 2025
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.45
Height: 1.50 Width: 5.70 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
This is the first account in English of how Islamic religious orders dating back to Ottoman times have risen to dominate and define the future of Turkey, Europe's awkward neighbor and the major power in the Eastern Mediterranean.

Given its determined program of secularizing the people both under and after the Ataturk regime, Turkey is often projected as a model for the compatibility of Islam with parliamentary democracy. In this absorbing book, journalist and writer David S. Tonge reveals the limitations of that secularization, and its progressive reversal, in what continues to be a profoundly religious country. He describes how Muslim Turks' religious identity has been taken over by branches of one of Islam's great religious orders, the Naqshbandis, whose profoundly anti-Western ethos was honed by British and French colonial incursions into the heartland of their faith.

Tonge's history offers a salutary alternative to the wishful narrative developed by Western chancelleries during the Cold War, one which viewed Turkey as a westernizing democracy. The revival of both Turkish nationalism and Islam helped President Erdogan's rise to power, and will shape the regime that succeeds him--illuminating and understanding Turkey's realities of faith and religious politics has never been more important.

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