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Ib Tauris & Co Ltd Islam and secularism in Turkey
Kemal Ataturk`s Republic of Turkey was set up in 1923 as a secular state, sweeping political, social, cultural and religious reforms followed. Islam was no longer the official religion of the state, the Sultanate was abolished and all Turkish citizens were declared equal without reference to religion. But though, in Azak`s phrase, `secularism was the central tenet of Kemalism`, fear of a resurgent, even fanatical, Islam, continued to haunt the state. Azak`s revisionist and original study sets out the struggle between religion and secularism but shows how Ataturk laboured for an idealised `Turkish Islam` - the `social cement` of the nation - stripped of superstition and obscurantism and linked to modern science and positivist philosophy. `Turkish Islam` has retained its traditional forms in the modern state and Ataturk`s Mausoleum dominates the capital and continues to inspire a popular, quasi-religious devotion.
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Ib Tauris & Co Ltd Islam and political violence
How do we engage with the pressing challenges of xenophobia, radicalism and security in the age of the `war on terror`? The widely felt sense of insecurity in the West is shared by Muslims both within and outside Western societies. Growing Islamic militancy and resulting increased security measures by Western powers have contributed to a pervasive sense among Muslims of being under attack (both physically and culturally). Islam and Political Violence brings together the current debate on the uneasy and potentially mutually destructive relationship between the Muslim world and the West and argues we are on a dangerous trajectory, strengthening dichotomous notions of the divide between the West and the Muslim world.
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