The Politicization of Islam Reconstructing Identity, State, Faith, and Community in the Late Ottoman State

by Karpat, Kemal H.

• ISBN13: 9780195165432
• ISBN10: 0195165438
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-12-23
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Combining international and domestic perspectives, this book analyzes the transformation of the Ottoman Empire over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It views privatization of state lands and the increase of domestic and foreign trade as key factors in the rise of a Muslim middle class, which, increasingly aware of its economic interests and communal roots, then attempted to reshape the government to reflect its ideals.

Table of Contents

Note on Pronunciation	ix
Introduction	3	(17)
Islamic Revivalism: Popular Roots of Islamism (Pan-Islamism)	20	(28)
The Precursors of Pan-Islamism: Peripheral Islam and the Caliphal Center	48	(20)
Russia, Islam, and Modernism: The Legacy of the Past	68	(21)
The New Middle Classes and the Naksbandia	89	(28)
Knowledge, Press, and the Popularization of Islamism	117	(19)
The War of 1877--1878 and Diverging Perceptions of Islam and Europe	136	(19)
The Making of a Modern Muslim Ruler: Abdulhamid II	155	(28)
The Sultan's Advisers and the Integration of Arabs and Immigrants	183	(25)
Ottoman-European Relations and Islamism	208	(15)
Continuity of Form, Change in Substance: Dynasty, State, and Islamism	223	(18)
The Harameyin, the Caliphate, and the British Search for an Arab Caliph	241	(17)
The Caliphate and Ottoman Foreign Policy in Africa	258	(18)
Formation of Modern Nationhood: Turkism and Pan-Islamism in Russia and the Ottoman Empire	276	(32)
The Reconstruction of State, Community-Nation, and Identity	308	(20)
Ottomanism, Fatherland, and the ``Turkishness'' of the State	328	(25)
Turkishness of the Community: From Religious to Ethnic-National Identity	353	(21)
The Turkist Thinkers: Ziya Gokalp, Yusuf Akcura, Fuat Koprulu	374	(34)
Conclusion	408	(15)
Notes	423	(58)
Select Bibliography	481	(28)
Index	509