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Contemporary Rationalist Islam in Turkey - The Religious Opposition to Sunni Revival (Paperback)
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Contemporary Rationalist Islam in Turkey - The Religious Opposition to Sunni Revival (Paperback)
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Nineteenth-century Istanbul was an intellectual hub of rich
discussions about Islam, in which leading reformists had a
significant role. Turkey today appears to be an intellectual vacuum
to anyone searching for ongoing critical engagement with Islam. The
main purpose of this book is to adjust this view of Turkey by
showcasing the modern Turkish theologians who challenge mainstream
Sunni interpretations of Islam. Labelling these theologians as
'rationalist' rather than 'reformist', the author reveals that
their theology is inherently anti-establishment and thus a
religiously-oriented challenge to the hegemony of the
state-sanctioned Islam: for the rationalists, Turkey's problems
have their origins in the Sunni interpretation of Islam.
Contemporary Rationalist Islam in Turkey analyses nine prominent
scholars of Islam who provide a religious opposition to the Sunni
revival in Turkey: Huseyin Atay, Yasar Nuri OEzturk, M. Hayri
Kirbasoglu, Ilhami Guler, R. Ihsan Eliacik, OEmer OEzsoy, Mustafa
OEzturk, Israfil Balci, and Mehmet Azimli. These scholars' writings
are almost exclusively published in Turkish, so this book makes
their ideas available in English for the first time. It also
examines the scope, methodology and argumentation of the scholars'
theology, categorizing their theological interpretations from
'historicist' to 'universalist' and from 'empiricist' to
'rationalist'. In identifying a new 'rationalist' school of Turkish
theology and outlining its different manifestations, the book
breaks new ground. It fills a significant gap in the literature on
Islamic studies and reveals an understudied dimension of Turkey and
Turkish Islam beyond the well-known ideas of the AKP and the
Gulenists.
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