Müslüman Milliyetçiliği ve Yeni Türkler

What does it mean to be Turkish? Under what conditions does national subjectivity occur? How are discourses about Turkishness implemented? Based on these questions, Muslim Nationalism and New Turks offers a comprehensive picture of Turkey's social, cultural and political structure. Jenny White, who deals with the relationship between the concepts of greeting and nation in the history of Turkey, examines missionary work and the headscarf, which she describes as two key symbols of fear, which are the axis of Turkey's social and political polarization. While evaluating the role of borders and purity in the reproduction of Turkish identity, it shows how the effort to make the population "the same" in response to the definitions of "enemy" keeps the fear of border violation and taboos alive.

Highlighting the gender aspect of the nation, White discusses the connection between masculinity and nation through the soldier and the soldier's mother, which he calls two metaphors of national identity. While discussing the dual nature of Turkish social and political life, he examines the concept of Muslim nationalism in the context of Turkey's relations with other countries and questions the reasons why Turkey is presented as a model after the Arab Spring.

Muslim Nationalism and New Turks, which includes current developments with a special section for the Turkish edition in which Jenny White comments on the Gezi Park events, is an important work on the change of Turkish identity and Islam.
(From the Promotional Bulletin)



Number of Pages: 332

Year of Printing: 2013


Language: Turkish
Publisher: İletişim Publishing

First Print Year: 2013

Language Turkish