Contemporary Rationalist Islam in Turkey
«A most stimulating work, one that all who are interesting in Islam in Turkey will read with pleasure, all the more so as it provides such detailed insight into the thoughts of a number of thinkers whose work is not well known in the English-speaking world.»
Turkish Area Studies Review
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. Les mer
Contemporary Rationalist Islam in Turkey analyses nine prominent scholars of Islam who provide a religious opposition to the Sunni revival in Turkey: Hüseyin Atay, Yasar Nuri Öztürk, M. Hayri Kirbasoglu, Ilhami Güler, R. Ihsan Eliaçik, Ömer Özsoy, Mustafa Öztürk, 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.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- I.B. Tauris
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 248
- ISBN
- 9780755636747
- Utgivelsesår
- 2021
- Format
- 23 x 16 cm
Anmeldelser
«A most stimulating work, one that all who are interesting in Islam in Turkey will read with pleasure, all the more so as it provides such detailed insight into the thoughts of a number of thinkers whose work is not well known in the English-speaking world.»
Turkish Area Studies Review
«Contemporary Rationalist Islam in Turkey is a seminal and welcome contribution to public and university library Islamic Studies collections, highly recommended.»
Midwest Book Review