The Veiling Issue, Official Secularism and Popular Islam in Modern Turkey

The Veiling Issue, Official Secularism and Popular Islam in Modern Turkey
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 120
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ISBN-10 : 9781136108747
ISBN-13 : 1136108742
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Download or read book The Veiling Issue, Official Secularism and Popular Islam in Modern Turkey written by Elisabeth Ozdalga and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Turkish elections of December 1995, the Islamic Welfare Party became the biggest Party in parliament and for the first time in history, an Islamic party had come to power by means of free elections. The rise to power of the Turkish Islamists is a result of several decades of revivalism. In this process the veil has been a prominent symbol of the new religious puritanism, causing resentment among those who regard the bare-headed woman as the symbol of progress and emancipation. In the light of a century-long conflict between secularism and popular Islam, the present study describes the conflict over the veil as it became a burning issue in the decade following the military intervention of 1980 and remains to this day a matter of controversy. While focusing on the issue of veiling, the author also considers the wider picture of tension between official secularism and popular Islam in present-day Turkey. Although this tension is not discounted, the author argues that the fact that the Islamic movement is on the rise does not mean that it threatens the very foundations of modern Turkish society. Whereas the controversies of the nineteenth century could be described as a 'clash of civilizations' (between Islam and the West), those of today have shrunk into conflicts over certain cultural symbols that are part of the same globally-expanding technological civilization.


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