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" Contemporary rationalist Islam in Turkey : "
Gokhan Bacik.
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BL
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1089222
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bc10513
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English
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Bacik, Gökhan
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Contemporary rationalist Islam in Turkey : : the religious opposition to Sunni Revival /\ Gokhan Bacik.
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London [England] :: I.B. Tauris,, 2021.
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London, England :: Bloomsbury Publishing,, 2021.
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1 online resource
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9780755636778
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: 0755636775
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: 9780755636761
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: 9780755636754
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9780755636747
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9780755636785
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0755636740
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction -- The Political Context -- The sociology of Turkish Rationalists -- Defining Islamic Rationalism -- Explaining the Cases: Historicists and Universalists -- The Structure of the Book -- Chapter 1: The Fundamentals: Qur'an and Hadith -- The rationalists on Qur'an -- Historicists on the Nature of Qur'an -- Historicists Interpreting Qur'an -- Universalists on the Nature of Qur'an -- Universalists Interpreting Qur'an -- The rationalists on Hadith -- The Status of Traditions -- Criticizing the Hadith Literature -- The Debate on Methodology -- Chapter 2: Law: Demystifying Shari'a -- The Nature and the Status of Shari'a -- Cases: A Rationalist Interpretation of Shari'a -- Corporal Punishment -- Slavery -- Apostasy -- Jihad -- The Status and Rights of Women in Islam -- The Law of Inheritance Polygamy Divorce Marriage with non-Muslims Beating Women Women's Testimony Veiling -- Who is a good Muslim? A Moralistic Theory of Piety -- Shari'a in Practice: Comprehensive Sunnah -- Islam and Politics: Towards a Theory of Opposition -- Chapter 3: History: "De-Islamizing" Islamic History -- Turkish Rationalists on History and Causality -- Revisionism on the History of Qur'an -- Revisionism on Muhammad's Life -- Revisionism on the Early Islamic History -- Chapter 4: Politics and Society: What went wrong? -- The Mainstream Theory of Decay -- The Rise of Sunni Orthodoxy -- Al-Ghazali: The Triumph of Anti-Rationalism -- Ash'arism: The Paradigmatic Root -- Al-Shafi'i: "The Villain" -- The Umayyads: The Practical Distortion of Islam -- Sufism: Popularization of Anti-Rationalism -- Contemporary Islamic Social Movements: A False Theory of Revival -- Conclusion.
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"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. The main purpose of this book is to adjust this view of Turkey by showcasing the modern Turkish theologians who challenge mainstream Sunni interpretations of Islam. Labelling these theologians as 'rationalist' rather than 'reformist', the author reveals that their theology is inherently anti-establishment and thus a religiously-oriented challenge to the hegemony of the state-sanctioned Islam: for the rationalists, Turkey's problems have their origins in the Sunni interpretation of Islam. 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."--
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Islam-- Turkey-- 21st century.
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Faith and reason-- Islam.
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Rationalism.
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Islamic philosophy-- Turkey.
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Middle East.
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Turkey and the Ottoman Empire (Middle East)
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Islamic Studies (Middle East)
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Religion politics.
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Faith and reason-- Islam.
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Hermeneutics.
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Islam.
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Islamic philosophy.
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Rationalism.
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Qurʼan-- Hermeneutics.
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Hadith-- Hermeneutics.
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Qurʼan.
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Turkey.
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| Dewey Classification
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297.2/7
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181.07
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| LC Classification
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BP190.5.R4.B33 2021
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B741.B33 2021
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