At the Nexus of Nationalism and Islamism: Seyyid Ahmet Arvasi and the Intellectual History of Conser...

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" At the Nexus of Nationalism and Islamism: Seyyid Ahmet Arvasi and the Intellectual History of Conservative Nationalism "
Duberstein, Tasha Kuru, Selim

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1054109
Doc. No	:	TL53226
Main Entry	:	Duberstein, Tasha
Title & Author	:	At the Nexus of Nationalism and Islamism: Seyyid Ahmet Arvasi and the Intellectual History of Conservative Nationalism\ Duberstein, TashaKuru, Selim
College	:	University of Washington
Date	:	2020
Degree	:	Master's
student score	:	2020
Note	:	79 p.
Abstract	:	This paper offers an analysis of the work of Seyyid Ahmet Arvasi (1932-1988); a highly influential yet understudied ultranationalist intellectual, whose synthesis of Turkish nationalism and Islamism provided the ideological framework for the current Islamist-nationalist ruling alliance in Turkish politics. A prolific author, poet, scholar, and propagandist, Arvasi's Türk-İslam Ülküsü (Turkish-Islamic Ideal) was integral to the formulation of conservative nationalism; a form of cultural and religious nationalism which frames national and religious identity as indivisible and mutually constitutive. However, despite Arvasi's significant contribution to the evolution of conservative nationalism, he remains a relatively obscure intellectual outside of ultranationalist circles, and his work is largely ignored in contemporary histories of political ideology. This study reexamines Ahmet Arvasi's work in tandem with the inception of conservative nationalism and the ascendancy of extremist politics, and concludes that his ideological legacy was fundamental to the consolidation of a right-wing bloc perennially represented by Islamists and nationalists.
Descriptor	:	Middle Eastern studies
Added Entry	:	Kuru, Selim
Added Entry	:	University of Washington