Veiling Issue, Official Secularism and Popular Islam in Modern Turkey
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Abdullah Cevdet
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cultural symbolism conflict
Demarcation Lines
Disciplinary Council
education
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gender and modernity
Harmonious Society
headscarf controversy in Turkey
higher
Home Town
Imam Hatip Schools
Islamic revivalism
kenan
Mahmut Makal
Mevlevi Order
Modem Turkey
Muslim World
National Order Party
National Salvation Party
party
politics
Popular Islam
religious identity politics
Republican People's Party
secularism and law
Siileyman Demirel
Sultan Mahmut II
Sultan Murad II
Tedrisat Kanunu
True Path Party
turkish
Turkish legal studies
Veiled Students
welfare
Young Man
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- ISBN 9781138883857
- Weight: 204g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 07 Apr 2015
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
