This book encompasses Serif Mardin's seminal essays written over a
span of three decades (1967 to 1997). Comprising some of the
author's finest and most incisive writings, the essays deal with
the historical background, political travails, and socioeconomic
metamorphosis of Turkey during a century of modernization.
With his characteristic sophistication and breadth of vision,
Mardin provides the reader with a remarkably objective analysis of
ideology, civil society, religion, urban life, and violence in late
Ottoman and Republican Turkey. As one of Turkey's most prominent
and original thinkers, Mardin's book is indispensable not only to
scholars of Turkish history but also to all those seeking to
acquire knowledge of the complex relationship between religion and
secularism in the broader Muslim world.
Most of the articles have a common theme: they seek to explore
alternative explanations to those provided by social scientists of
the 1960s and 1970s. These include "Marxisant" versions of Turkish
social and political history, and positivist convictions that
belief systems cannot be counted among the "facts" of history.
Mardin moves easily from sociological topics on violence and class
consciousness to the history of the Ottoman Empire, and the
philosophy and culture of modern Turkey within the greater Middle
East. Mardin's most influential pieces -- collected for the first
time in one volume -- represent an invaluable addition to the field
of Middle East studies.
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