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The Iranian Revolution represented to intellectuals and
professionals the potential of spiritual values to triumph over the
great power of economic imperialism. Yet out of this revolution has
emerged an identity crisis that touches Islamic ideological heights
and reaches down to the very ground of Islamic practice. The
contributors to this collection, experts on Iranian cultural and
political history, analyze the 'fragmented self' of today's
Iranian, refracted through that country's institutions, market
forces, and modern thought. Each essay both deepens our
understanding of contemporary Iran and adds to the broader
discussion of the relationship between Islam and the West.
The Iranian Revolution represented to intellectuals and
professionals the potential of spiritual values to triumph over the
great power of economic imperialism. Yet out of this revolution has
emerged an identity crisis that touches Islamic ideological heights
and reaches down to the very ground of Islamic practice. The
contributors to this collection, experts on Iranian cultural and
political history, analyze the 'fragmented self' of today's
Iranian, refracted through that country's institutions, market
forces, and modern thought. Each essay both deepens our
understanding of contemporary Iran and adds to the broader
discussion of the relationship between Islam and the West.
Asks why Islamic Modernism took the shape it did and why it emerged
when it didThis book studies the complex relationship of religion
to modernity. Monica M. Ringer argues that modernity should be
understood as the consequence, not the cause, of the new
intellectual landscape of the 19th century. Using the lens of
Islamic Modernism, she uncovers the underlying epistemology and
methodology of historicism that penetrated the Middle East and
South Asia in this period, both forcing and enabling a
recalibration of the definition, nature, function and place of
religion. And she shows that Muslim Modernists, like their
counterparts in other religious traditions, engaged in a
sophisticated project of theological reform designed to marry their
twin commitments to religion and to modernity they were in
conversation not only with European scholarship and Catholic
Modernism but, more importantly, with their own complex Islamic
traditions.
This book is principally a study of the complex relationship of
religion to modernity. Monica M. Ringer argues that modernity
should be understood as the consequence, not the cause, of the new
intellectual landscape of the 19th century. Using the lens of
Islamic modernism she uncovers the underlying epistemology and
methodology of historicism that penetrated the Middle East and
South Asia in this period, both forcing and enabling a
recalibration of the definition, nature, function and place of
religion. She shows that Muslim Modernists, like their counterparts
in other religious traditions, engaged in a sophisticated project
of theological reform designed to marry their twin commitments to
religion and to modernity. They were in conversation not only with
European scholarship and Catholic modernism, but more importantly,
with their own complex Islamic traditions.
Central to the nineteenth-century Ottoman Tanzimat reform project,
the novel originally developed outside of Ottoman space, yet was
adopted as a didactic tool to model and generate new forms of
Ottoman citizenship. Essays in this book explore the appropriation
of the novel as a literary genre and its deployment in the late
Ottoman cultural project of constructing an Ottoman modernity.
Analyzing key texts and authors, from the works of Ahmet Midhat
Efendi to Mizanci Murad and Vartan Pasha, among others, the book's
chapters explore the novel genre as far more than a case of
importation of Western and non-Ottoman cultural productions, but
rather as a vehicle for the cultivation of indigenous modern
subjectivities.
Central to the nineteenth-century Ottoman Tanzimat reform project,
the novel originally developed outside of Ottoman space, yet was
adopted as a didactic tool to model and generate new forms of
Ottoman citizenship. Essays in this book explore the appropriation
of the novel as a literary genre and its deployment in the late
Ottoman cultural project of constructing an Ottoman modernity.
Analyzing key texts and authors, from the works of Ahmet Midhat
Efendi to Mizanci Murad and Vartan Pasha, among others, the book's
chapters explore the novel genre as far more than a case of
importation of Western and non-Ottoman cultural productions, but
rather as a vehicle for the cultivation of indigenous modern
subjectivities.
Ahmet Midhat Efendi's famous 1875 novel Felatun Bey and Rakim
Efendi takes place in late nineteenth-century Istanbul and follows
the lives of two young men who come from radically different
backgrounds. Rakim Efendi is an erudite, self-made man, one who is
ambitious and cultivated enough to mingle with a European crowd. In
contrast, Felatun Bey is a spendthrift who lacks intellectual
curiosity and a strong work ethic. Squandering his wealth and
education, he leads a life of decadence. The novel traces Rakim and
Felatun's relationships with multiple characters, charting their
romances and passions, as well as their foibles and amusing mishaps
as they struggle to find and follow their own path through the many
temptations and traps of European culture. The author creates a
rich portrait of stratified Ottoman life through a diverse and
colorful cast of characters-from a French piano teacher and an Arab
nanny, to a Circassian slave girl-each deftly navigating the
shifting mores of their social class. Written during the Ottoman
Empire's uneasy transition to modernity, the novel's protagonists
embody both the best and worst elements of two worlds, European and
Ottoman. The novel provides readers with an elegant yet powerful
appeal for progressive reforms and individual freedoms. Levi and
Ringer's fluid translation of this Ottoman classic stands as a
landmark in the history of Turkish literature in translation.
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