The formation of Turkish republicanism /Banu Turnaoğlu.
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, (c)2017.
- 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Dramatis Personae; INTRODUCTION; Revival of Turkish Interest in Republicanism; Republicanism as a Political Tradition; CHAPTER 1 Shaping the Empire ; Early Stages of Ottoman State Formation; Ottoman Political Thought in the Classical Age; Ottoman Perceptions of Decline during the Seventeenth Century; The Turn to the West; Conclusion. CHAPTER 2 The Age of Transformation in Ottoman Political Thought: The Reigns of Selim III (r. 1789-1808) and Mahmud II (r. 1808-39) Reactions to the French Revolution; The New Order and Reforms of Selim III. The Reforms of the Absolutist Sultan Mahmud IIConclusion; CHAPTER 3 The Tanzimat Era and the Republicanism of the Young Ottomans ; The Rise of Bureaucratic Authoritarianism and the Reform Movement; Ottomanism (Osmanlicilik); The Political Thought of the Young Ottomans: Liberalism, Islamism, and Radicalism; Conclusion. CHAPTER 4 The Positivist Universalism and Republicanism of the Young Turks Comte's Universalism: Uniting the Occident and the Orient through Positivism; The Young Turks' Idealism, Republicanism, and Positivist Universalism; Humanity in Two Senses; Reactions to Ottoman Positivist Universalism; Conclusion. CHAPTER 5 The Political Thought of the Young Turk Revolution Political Activism and Reorganization of the Young Turks; The Young Turk Revolution of 1908; The New Vision of the Ottoman State and the Impact of French Republicanism: Liberty, Equality, Justice, and Fraternity; Conclusion.
"Turkish republicanism is commonly thought to have originated with Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and the founding of modern Turkey in 1923, and understood exclusively in terms of Kemalist ideals, characterized by the principles of secularism, nationalism, statism, and populism. Banu Turnaoglu challenges this view, showing how Turkish republicanism represents the outcome of centuries of intellectual dispute in Turkey over Islamic and liberal conceptions of republicanism, culminating in the victory of Kemalism in the republic's formative period. Drawing on a wealth of rare archival material, Turnaoglu presents the first complete history of republican thinking in Turkey from the birth of the Ottoman state to the founding of the modern republic. She shows how the Kemalists wrote Turkish history from their own perspective, presenting their own version of republicanism as inevitable while disregarding the contributions of competing visions. Turnaoglu demonstrates how republicanism has roots outside the Western political experience, broadening our understanding of intellectual history. She reveals how the current crises in Turkish politics--including the Kurdish Question, democratic instability, the rise of radical Islam, and right-wing Turkish nationalism--arise from intellectual tensions left unresolved by Kemalist ideology. A breathtaking work of scholarship, The Formation of Turkish Republicanism offers a strikingly new narrative of the evolution and shaping of modern Turkey"--
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Atatürk, Kemal, 1881-1938 --Political and social views.
Republicanism--History.--Turkey Islam and politics--History.--Turkey Liberalism--History.--Turkey