From the Ottomans to the Republicans: Accommodation of the Kemalist Content in Between the Spiritual and the Temporal

Volume: 13 Number: 4 November 1, 2013
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From the Ottomans to the Republicans: Accommodation of the Kemalist Content in Between the Spiritual and the Temporal

Abstract

The temporal in the kemalist content, resulted from the positivist ideology, especially as it relatedto the kemalist principle of secularism during the single party period. Consequently, even though the Ottoman “theocracy” had been a special case, the kemalist content in its opposition to the Ottoman State, opposed as well the spiritual element in public sphere. The reintegration of liberal Islam in public corresponded on the other hand,tokemalismbeing transformed. The article proposes that the kemalism as a process could transform in relationship to different historical contexts. In turn, the accommodation of the kemalist content in between the temporal and the spiritual depended on kemalism’s getting reinterpreted. This,while attributed a new role model to Turkey on the international scene, obeyed nevertheless the status of religion since the Ottoman Empireas submitted to State. The article concludes that kemalist accommodation to the spiritual has only been possiblewithin the reinterpretation of kemalism because the kemalist ideology, as an open ended process, permitted it

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English

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Authors

Aslı Ege This is me

Publication Date

November 1, 2013

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November 1, 2013

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Year 2013 Volume: 13 Number: 4

APA
Ege, A. (2013). From the Ottomans to the Republicans: Accommodation of the Kemalist Content in Between the Spiritual and the Temporal. Ege Academic Review, 13(4), 539-554. https://izlik.org/JA73WC33AS
AMA
1.Ege A. From the Ottomans to the Republicans: Accommodation of the Kemalist Content in Between the Spiritual and the Temporal. ear. 2013;13(4):539-554. https://izlik.org/JA73WC33AS
Chicago
Ege, Aslı. 2013. “From the Ottomans to the Republicans: Accommodation of the Kemalist Content in Between the Spiritual and the Temporal”. Ege Academic Review 13 (4): 539-54. https://izlik.org/JA73WC33AS.
EndNote
Ege A (November 1, 2013) From the Ottomans to the Republicans: Accommodation of the Kemalist Content in Between the Spiritual and the Temporal. Ege Academic Review 13 4 539–554.
IEEE
[1]A. Ege, “From the Ottomans to the Republicans: Accommodation of the Kemalist Content in Between the Spiritual and the Temporal”, ear, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 539–554, Nov. 2013, [Online]. Available: https://izlik.org/JA73WC33AS
ISNAD
Ege, Aslı. “From the Ottomans to the Republicans: Accommodation of the Kemalist Content in Between the Spiritual and the Temporal”. Ege Academic Review 13/4 (November 1, 2013): 539-554. https://izlik.org/JA73WC33AS.
JAMA
1.Ege A. From the Ottomans to the Republicans: Accommodation of the Kemalist Content in Between the Spiritual and the Temporal. ear. 2013;13:539–554.
MLA
Ege, Aslı. “From the Ottomans to the Republicans: Accommodation of the Kemalist Content in Between the Spiritual and the Temporal”. Ege Academic Review, vol. 13, no. 4, Nov. 2013, pp. 539-54, https://izlik.org/JA73WC33AS.
Vancouver
1.Aslı Ege. From the Ottomans to the Republicans: Accommodation of the Kemalist Content in Between the Spiritual and the Temporal. ear [Internet]. 2013 Nov. 1;13(4):539-54. Available from: https://izlik.org/JA73WC33AS