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Ottoman Ulema, Turkish republic : agents of change and guardians of tradition
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ISBN: 9780804773119 0804773114 Year: 2011 Publisher: Stanford, Calif. Stanford University Press

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To better understand the diverse inheritance of Islamic movements in present-day Turkey, we must take a closer look at the religious establishment, the ulema, during the first half of the twentieth century. During the closing years of the Ottoman Empire and the early decades of the Republic of Turkey, the spread of secularist and anti-religious ideas had a major impact on the views and political leanings of the ulema. This book explores the intellectual debates and political movements of the religious establishment during this time.Bein reveals how competing visions of development

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