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Kurdish Identity, Islamism, and Ottomanism

Author : Deniz Ekici
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793612609
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Book Synopsis Kurdish Identity, Islamism, and Ottomanism by : Deniz Ekici

Download or read book Kurdish Identity, Islamism, and Ottomanism written by Deniz Ekici and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major common misconception in scholarship on Kurdish journalistic discourses is that Kurdish intellectuals of the late Ottoman period cannot be portrayed as Kurdish nationalists. This theory prevails because of the belief that they not only endorsed and promoted Pan-Islamism and Ottoman nationalism instead of Kurdish ethnic nationalism, but also because they allegedly eschewed political demands and instead concerned themselves with ethno-cultural issues to articulate forms of “Kurdism” rather than “Kurdish nationalism.” Refuting this underlying misconstruction of the nexus between Pan-Islamism, Ottomanism, and Kurdish nationalism, this book argues, based on empirical findings, that the Kurdish periodicals of the late Ottoman period served as a communicative space in which Kurdish intellectuals negotiated and disseminated an unmistakable form of Kurdish nationalism. It claims that hegemonic Ottomanist and Pan-Islamist political thought were used in pragmatic ways in the service of burgeoning Kurdish nationalism, but were rejected altogether when they were no longer useful to fostering Kurdish nationalism.

Islam, Kurds and the Turkish Nation State

Author : Christopher Houston
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000184382
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Book Synopsis Islam, Kurds and the Turkish Nation State by : Christopher Houston

Download or read book Islam, Kurds and the Turkish Nation State written by Christopher Houston and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-26 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can Islamism, as is often claimed, truly unite Muslim Turks and Kurds in a discourse that supersedes ethnicity? This is a volatile and exciting time for a country whose long history has been characterized by dramatic power play. Evolving out of two years of fieldwork in Istanbul, this book examines the fragmenting Islamist political movement in Turkey. As Turkey emerges from a repressive modernizing project, various political identities are emerging and competing for influence. The Islamist movement celebrates the failure of Western liberalism in Turkey and the return of politics based on Muslim ideals. However, this vision is threatened by Kurdish nationalism and the country's troubled past. Is Islamist multiculturalism even possible? The ethnic tensions surfacing in Turkey beg the question whether the Muslim Turks and Kurds can find common ground in religion. Houston argues that such unification depends fundamentally upon the flexibility of the rationale behind the Islamist movement's struggle.

Kurdish Nationalism and Political Islam in Turkey

Author : Omer Taspinar
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 041594998X
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (159 download)

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Book Synopsis Kurdish Nationalism and Political Islam in Turkey by : Omer Taspinar

Download or read book Kurdish Nationalism and Political Islam in Turkey written by Omer Taspinar and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

A People Without a State

Author : Michael Eppel
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477311076
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book A People Without a State written by Michael Eppel and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Numbering between 25 and 35 million worldwide, the Kurds are among the largest culturally and ethnically distinct people to remain stateless. A People Without a State offers an in-depth survey of an identity that has often been ignored in mainstream historiographies of the Middle East and brings to life the historical, social, and political developments in Kurdistani society over the past millennium. Michael Eppel begins with the myths and realities of the origins of the Kurds, describes the effect upon them of medieval Muslim states under Arab, Persian, and Turkish dominance, and recounts the emergence of tribal-feudal dynasties. He explores in detail the subsequent rise of Kurdish emirates, as well as this people’s literary and linguistic developments, particularly the flourishing of poetry. The turning tides of the nineteenth century, including Ottoman reforms and fluctuating Russian influence after the Crimean War, set in motion an early Kurdish nationalism that further expressed a distinct cultural identity. Stateless, but rooted in the region, the Kurds never achieved independence because of geopolitical conditions, tribal rivalries, and obstacles on the way to modernization. A People Without a State captures the developments that nonetheless forged a vast sociopolitical system.

Under the Banner of Islam

Author : Gülay Türkmen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197511813
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)

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Book Synopsis Under the Banner of Islam by : Gülay Türkmen

Download or read book Under the Banner of Islam written by Gülay Türkmen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "How do religious, ethnic, and national identities interact in religiously homogenous ethnic conflicts? Is it possible for religion to act as a resolution tool in such conflicts? Why? Why not? In search for answers to these questions, Under the Banner of Islam focuses on the ambivalent role Sunni Islam has played in Turkey's Kurdish conflict-both as a conflict-resolution tool and as a tool of resistance-in the last two decades. Relying mainly on participant observation in Civil Friday Prayers and 62 interviews conducted in three different cities in Turkey (Istanbul and the majority-Kurdish Diyarbakir and Batman) between June 2012 and June 2013, it demonstrates that Sunni Islam has had a very limited impact as a conflict-resolution tool in Turkey. Blending interview data with a detailed historical institutional analysis that goes back as early as the nineteenth century, it argues that the strength of Turkish and Kurdish nationalisms, the symbiotic relationship between Turkey's religious and political fields, religious elites' varying conceptualizations of religious and ethnic identities, and the recent political developments in the region (particularly the establishment of an autonomous Kurdish region, Rojava, in Syria) have all contributed to this outcome. The resulting narrative is not only a record of religion, ethnicity, and nationalism in Turkey's Kurdish conflict, but also an investigation of how ethnic and religious identities are negotiated in conflict resolution and how symbolic boundaries are drawn in ethnic conflict zones"--

Kurds in Erdogan's Turkey

Author : William Gourlay
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474459226
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Kurds in Erdogan's Turkey written by William Gourlay and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-28 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the circumstances of the Kurds in 21st century Turkey, under the hegemony of the AKP government. After decades of denial, oppression and conflict, Kurds now assert a more confident presence in Turkey's politics - but does increasing visibility mean a rejection of Turkey? Recording Kurdish voices from Istanbul and DiyarbakA r, Turkey's most important Kurdish-populated cities, this book generates new understandings of Kurdish identity and political aspirations. Highlighting elements of Kurdish identity including Newroz, the Kurdish language, connections to religion, landscape and cross-border ties, it offers a portrait of Kurdish political life in a Turkey increasingly dominated by its president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Within the context of Turkey's troubled trajectory towards democratisation, it documents Kurdish narratives of oppression and resistance, and enquires how Kurds reconcile their distinct ethnic identity and citizenship in modern Turkey.

Islam and Competing Nationalisms in the Middle East, 1876-1926

Author : Kamal Soleimani
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137599405
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Book Synopsis Islam and Competing Nationalisms in the Middle East, 1876-1926 by : Kamal Soleimani

Download or read book Islam and Competing Nationalisms in the Middle East, 1876-1926 written by Kamal Soleimani and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-06-15 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opposing a binary perspective that consolidates ethnicity, religion, and nationalism into separate spheres, this book demonstrates that neither nationalism nor religion can be studied in isolation in the Middle East. Religious interpretation, like other systems of meaning-production, is affected by its historical and political contexts, and the processes of interpretation and religious translation bleed into the institutional discourses and processes of nation-building. This book calls into question the foundational epistemologies of the nation-state by centering on the pivotal and intimate role Islam played in the emergence of the nation-state, showing the entanglements and reciprocities of nationalism and religious thought as they played out in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century Middle East.

Nationalism and Islamism in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq

Author : Mohammad Salih Mustafa
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000204049
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Book Synopsis Nationalism and Islamism in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq by : Mohammad Salih Mustafa

Download or read book Nationalism and Islamism in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq written by Mohammad Salih Mustafa and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-29 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring a new political phenomenon in the Middle East, this book studies the reconciliation of nationalism and Islamism by Islamic political parties in the context of nation states. Islamism in Kurdistan has become significantly framed by the politics of nationalism. Although the concept of religious nationalism has been discussed substantially before, this work highlights a new brand of religious nationalism that has emerged as a result of intertwining nationalism and Islamism. The focus of this study is on the development of religious nationalism in the continuously tumultuous region of the Middle East. The volume investigates whether Islamism in Kurdistan is limited by the politics of nationalism – which is an accentuated example for the whole Middle East region. By looking at the Kurdistan Islamic Union (KIU), the research studies Islamism in the Kurdistan Region to elaborate on this new type of politics. This is essentially due to the absence of a politically recognised nation state, which renders Kurds to be particularly susceptible to various manifestations of nationalism. Offering an account on the spread of the Muslim Brotherhood in the Kurdistan Region, this original research on Kurdish nationalism will be a key text for students and researchers interested in nationalism, Islamism and Middle East politics.

Constituting the Political Economy of the Kurds

Author : Omer Tekdemir
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000378284
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Book Synopsis Constituting the Political Economy of the Kurds by : Omer Tekdemir

Download or read book Constituting the Political Economy of the Kurds written by Omer Tekdemir and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-04-21 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the development of Kurdish political economy and the emergence of collective Kurdish identity within a historical context through three main periods: the late-Ottoman Empire, the initial Republican Turkey era, and then the post-1990s period. It relates historical developments to the dynamics of Kurdish society, including the anthropological realities of the nineteenth century through the moral economy frame, the evolving nature of nationalism in the early twentieth century and the more recent construction of a modern political Kurdishness by means of radical democracy, and an agonistic pluralism shaped by left-wing populism.

Nationalism and Minority Identities in Islamic Societies

Author : Maya Shatzmiller
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773528482
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (284 download)

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Book Synopsis Nationalism and Minority Identities in Islamic Societies by : Maya Shatzmiller

Download or read book Nationalism and Minority Identities in Islamic Societies written by Maya Shatzmiller and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2005 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The movement of nation building in Islamic societies away from the secular or Pan-Arab models of the early twentieth century toward a variety of "nationalisms" was accompanied by growing antagonism between the Muslim majority and ethnic or religious minorities. The papers in Nationalism and Minority Identities in Islamic Societies offer a comparative analysis of how these minorities developed their own distinctive identities within the modern Islamic nation-state. The essays focus on identity formation in five minority groups - Copts in Egypt, Baha'is and Christians in Pakistan, Berbers in Algeria and Morocco, and Kurds in Turkey and Iraq. While every minority community is distinctive, the experiences of each show that a state's authoritarian rule, uncompromising attitude towards expressions of particularism, and failure to offer tools for inclusion are all responsible for the politicization and radicalization of minority identities. The place of Islam in this process is complex: while its initial pluralistic role was transformed through the creation of the modern nation-state, the radicalization of society in turn radicalized and politicized minority identities. Minority groups, though at times possessing a measure of political autonomy, remain intensely vulnerable. Contributors include Juan R.I. Cole (University of Michigan), David L. Crawford (Fairfield University), Michael Gunter (Tennessee Technological University), Azzedine Layachi (St John's University), Richard C. Martin (Emory University), Paul S. Rowe (University of Western Ontario), Maya Shatzmiller (University of Western Ontario), Charles D. Smith (University of Arizona), Pieternella van Doorn-Harder (Valparaiso University), the late Linda S. Walbridge (University of Oklahoma), and M. Hakan Yavuz (University of Utah). Announcing the series: Studies in Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict General Editors: Sid Noel and Richard Vernon, co-directors of University of Western Ontario's Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict Research Group. Studies in Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict is a series that examines the political dimensions of nationality in the contemporary world. The series includes both scholarly monographs and edited volumes which consider the varied sources and political expressions of national identities, the politics of multiple loyalty, the domestic and international effects of competing identities within a single state, and the causes of, and political responses to, conflict between ethnic and religious groups. The volumes are designed for use by university students, scholars and interested general readers.

Nationalisms and Politics in Turkey

Author : Marlies Casier
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136938672
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book Nationalisms and Politics in Turkey written by Marlies Casier and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-09-13 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines some of the most pressing issues facing the Turkish political establishment, focusing in particular on the issues of nationalism, the Kurds and political Islam.

Turkey's Kurdish Question

Author : Henri J. Barkey
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780847685530
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (855 download)

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Download or read book Turkey's Kurdish Question written by Henri J. Barkey and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1998 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Kurds, one of the oldest ethnic groups in the Middle East, are reasserting their identity-politically and through violence. Turkey's essentially democratic structure and civil society-ideal tools for coping with and incorporating minority challenge-have so far been suspended on this issue, which the government is treating almost exclusively as a security problem to be dealt with by force. This study explores the roots, dimensions, character, and evolution of the problem, offers a range of approaches to a resolution of the conflict, and draws broader parallels between the Kurdish question and other separatist movements worldwide.

Kurdish Notables and the Ottoman State

Author : Hakan Ozoglu
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791485560
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Book Synopsis Kurdish Notables and the Ottoman State by : Hakan Ozoglu

Download or read book Kurdish Notables and the Ottoman State written by Hakan Ozoglu and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kurdish nationalism remains one of the most critical and explosive problems of the Middle East. Despite its importance, the topic remains on the margins of Middle East Studies. Bringing the study of Kurdish nationalism into the mainstream of Middle East scholarship, Hakan Özogálu examines the issue in the context of the Ottoman Empire. Using a wealth of primary sources, including Ottoman and British archives, Ottoman Parliamentary minutes, memoirs, and interviews, he focuses on revealing the social, political, and historical forces behind the emergence and development of Kurdish nationalism. Contrary to the assumption that nationalist movements contribute to the collapse of empires, the book argues that Kurdish leaders remained loyal to the Ottoman state, and only after it became certain that the empire would not recover did Kurdish nationalism emerge and clash with the Kemalist brand of Turkish nationalism.

The Kurdish Question and Turkey

Author : Kemal Kirisci
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135217777
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book The Kurdish Question and Turkey written by Kemal Kirisci and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the Kurdish question in Turkey, tracing its developments from the end of the Ottoman Empire to the present day. The study considers: secession; federal schemes; various forms of autonomy; the provision of special rights; and further democratization.

The Nation or the Ummah

Author : Birol Başkan
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438486499
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book The Nation or the Ummah written by Birol Başkan and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2021-12-01 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turkey's enthusiastic embrace of the Arab Spring set in motion a dynamic that fundamentally altered its relations with the United States, Russia, Qatar, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Iran, and transformed Turkey from a soft power to a hard power in the tangled geopolitics of the Middle East. Birol Başkan and Ömer Taşpınar argue that the ruling Justice and Development Party's (AKP) Islamist background played a significant role in the country's decision to embrace the uprisings and the subsequent foreign policy direction the country has pursued. They demonstrate that religious ideology is endogenous to—shaping and in turn being shaped by—Turkey's various engagements in the Middle East. The Nation or the Ummah emphasizes that while Islamist religious ideology does not provide specific policy prescriptions, it does shape the way the ruling elite sees and interprets the context and the structural boundaries they operate within.

Narratives of the History of the Ottoman-Kurdish Bedirhani Family in Imperial and Post-Imperial Contexts

Author : Barbara Henning
Publisher : University of Bamberg Press
ISBN 13 : 3863095510
Total Pages : 758 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Narratives of the History of the Ottoman-Kurdish Bedirhani Family in Imperial and Post-Imperial Contexts written by Barbara Henning and published by University of Bamberg Press. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Kurds and the Politics of Turkey

Author : Deniz Çifçi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 178831638X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (883 download)

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Book Synopsis The Kurds and the Politics of Turkey by : Deniz Çifçi

Download or read book The Kurds and the Politics of Turkey written by Deniz Çifçi and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-08 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Kurds constitute the largest stateless nation in the world. Their position in Turkey attracts attention both within the country and internationally, particularly focusing on the demand for Kurdish independence. Yet since the 1990s, new Kurdish parties have formed within Turkey who have a variety of ideologies and demands that go beyond, and differ in opinion on, the question of independence. Much of the present literature on the topic looks at the Kurds of Turkey as a homogenous group with unified political demands, which over-simplifies their position within the political backdrop of Turkey. This book seeks to provide nuance and depth to the current debate on Kurdish political agency and presence in Turkey. Presently, the Kurds' political demands can be classified into four categories; democratic autonomy, their cultural rights to be granted, federalism (territorial autonomies) and independence (creation of a Kurdish nation-state). In a broad sense, these models can also be ordered into two categories; territorial political models (federalism and independence) and non-territorial political models (democratic autonomy and cultural rights). Considering the diversity within the Kurdish community - intertwinement of tribal, ethnic and national identity - and differences in their language, religion and ideology, there are several contributing factors for the emergence of the current varied political demands of Kurds. By explaining variation among the Kurds' political demands through close analysis of existing at emerging parties, this study challenges a deterministic approach to the Kurds which currently dominates the discourse.