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More surprisingly, he fails to even mention the work on Islamist politics in the neighboring Istanbul borough of Ümraniye, which was carried out by Jenny B. White in the 1990s, and which has been widely acclaimed as a pioneering study.6 Admittedly, White's agenda was slightly different, since she sought to examine the role of "vernacular politics," or the degree to which political Islamism should be connected with the wider cultural practices of its supporters, mostly imported from the rural hinterland from which they originated. For liberal critics, the main worry is not that the AKP is too radical, but that it may have become too conservative, abandoning its reformist agenda, slipping into the default mode of previous center-right parties by making deals with the authoritarian state ...
... adds exhaustive detail on the ideas of Ali Bulaç, Ismet Özel, Rasým Özdenören, and Abdurrahman ...
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This article examines and compares the Islamic resurgence movements in Iran between the 1950s to the revolution of 1979 and in Turkey from the 1950s to the present. It focuses on wide-ranging socioeconomic, political, ideological, psychological, historical, and cultural factors, in addition to the religious and spiritual motivations, behind the phenomenon of Islamic revivalism and intends to find the similarities and/or differences between the Islamization movements in both countries.
... in contemporary Turkey, such as Ali Bulaç, Rasim Özdenören, Ismet Özel, and Ersin Nazif G...
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Problems that have undermined the legitimacy of Middle Eastern nations and stimulated Islamic opposition since the 1967 Arab-Israeli war are discussed. Topics include the region's populist and revolutionary politics, the unequal distribution of wealth, public corruption, inefficiency and repression, and the lack of a middle ground between opposing groups.
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Morrison examines the life and works of Ismet Ozel, who has dissociated himself from Islamism and other Islamist figures in Turkey. A perennial theme in Ozel's works is the question of what it means to be a Muslim living in the modern and notionally secular Republic of Turkey. The obstacles in this particular time and place are explored to realize the values Ozel prizes as truly and authentically Islamic, as well as the temptations distracting believers from living distinctively Muslim lives--in harmony with an Islam that is something more than a political slogan or shibboleth.
... of his same generation, such as Ali Bulaç, Huseyin Hatemi, Abclulrahman Dilipak and Rasim Oz...
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