İsmail Kara. Cumhuriyet Türkiyesi’nde Bir Mesele Olarak İslâm (The Problem of Islam in Republican Turkey). Vol. 2.

Year 2018, Volume: 23 Issue: 44, 0 - 0, 01.07.2018

Rahim Acar

https://doi.org/10.20519/divan.448301

Abstract

İsmail Kara is one of the leading
scholars of Islamism and modern Turkish intellectual history. The long-awaited
second volume of his Cumhuriyet Türkiyesi’nde Bir Mesele Olarak İslâm (The
Problem of Islam in Republican Turkey)
reflects his views and studies on the history of the modern Republic of Turkey.
Published in 2016, following the appearance of the first volume in 2008, the rich
analyses and information in the book will be especially important for those studying
the development and evolution of the modern Turkish Republic. One may consider
Kara’s new book as the embodiment of his saying, “in Turkey, there is nothing
unrelated to religion.” Thus, it is a work that carefully traces how the
Islamic-religious factor has affected the establishment of Turkey’s state
institutions/bureaucracy and efforts to modernize Turkish society and integrate
it with contemporary Western civilization.

Keywords

Politics and Religion, Modernization, Modern Turkish History

References

• İsmail Kara. Cumhuriyet Türkiyesi’nde Bir Mesele Olarak İslâm. Cilt 2. İstanbul: Dergâh Yayınları, 2016.