dc.contributor.author | Bellafiore, Robert | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-06-05T21:49:52Z | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-04-14T14:32:35Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-06-05T21:49:52Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-04-14T14:32:35Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/11244.46/84 | |
dc.description | © 2016, The Journal of Global Affairs is the official student research publication of the Department of International and Area Studies in the College of International Studies at the University of Oklahoma. Correspondence may be sent to: Journal of Global Affairs, C/O CIS/DIAS, 729 Elm Avenue, Hester Hall 150, Norman, Oklahoma 73019, United States of America. Email: jga@ou.edu. | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | The Turkish War of Independence and the following reforms
implemented by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk were watershed events in both
Islamic and world history. The political and social climate of Turkey,
previously the Ottoman Empire, had long reflected the complex
relationships between the Muslim and Western worlds, especially the
power struggle between politics and religion. When Atatürk initiated a
revolution in the country in 1919, politics, culture, and religion were
dramatically and irrevocably changed. However, while the reforms
themselves were swift, the philosophical and ideological development
behind them was not. Religion and state in the Muslim world have
evolved in tandem since Islam’s inception, and this relationship took a
new turn with the rise of modern political Islam in the nineteenth
century. The goal of this paper is to show that, when considered from
the broader perspective of Islamic history, Atatürk’s creation and
secularization of the Republic of Turkey represented the culmination of
political Islam and fulfilled the goals of the movement’s leaders, Jamal
al-din al-Afghani and Mohammad Abduh. | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | The Journal of Global Affairs is published in conjunction with the College of International Studies at the University of Oklahoma. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | The Journal of Global Affairs;Volume V | |
dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States | * |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ | * |
dc.subject | Turkey | en_US |
dc.subject | Atatürk, Mustafa Kemal, 1881-1938 | en_US |
dc.subject | Republic of Turkey | en_US |
dc.subject | Turkish War of Independence, 1919 | en_US |
dc.subject | Political Islam | en_US |
dc.title | Turkey's Great Leap Forward: Atatürk's Reforms and the Rise of Political Islam | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.description.undergraduate | undergraduate | |