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Turkism, Islamism And Modernism
''Turkism, Islamism and Modernism'' (Turkish: ''Türkleşmek, İslamlaşmak, Muasırlaşmak'') is a book written by Ziya Gökalp published in 1918 after the Balkan Wars. The book reflects his perspectives on various subjects and the political landscape of the Ottoman Empire during the writing process of the book, along with his personal political ideologies involving with the issues presented in the book. The book is a compilation of various essays which were written under the Title (publishing), title "''Türkleşmek, İslâmlaşmak, Muâsırlaşmak''" by Ziya Gökalp around 1913–1914, for literary magazines namely Türk Yurdu (Turkish Land) and İslam Mecmuası (Magazine of Islam), as a serialized work that had been released in different issues. Book is composed of eleven chapters and every chapter contains multiple essays which have episodes where the author expresses personal political views. History The book has been first compiled and published in Evkaf-ı İslamiye Matba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ziya Gökalp
Mehmet Ziya Gökalp (born Mehmed Ziya, 23 March 1876 – 25 October 1924) was a Turkish sociologist, writer, poet, and politician. After the 1908 Young Turk Revolution that reinstated constitutionalism in the Ottoman Empire, he adopted the pen name Gökalp ("celestial hero"), which he retained for the rest of his life. As a sociologist, Ziya Gökalp was influential in the negation of Islamism, pan-Islamism, and Ottomanism as ideological, cultural, and sociological identifiers. In a 1936 publication, sociologist Niyazi Berkes described Gökalp as "the real founder of Turkish sociology, since he was not a mere translator or interpreter of foreign sociology". Gökalp's work was particularly influential in shaping the reforms of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk; his influence figured prominently in the development of Kemalism, and its legacy in the modern Republic of Turkey. Influenced by contemporary European thought, particularly by the sociological view of Émile Durkheim, Gökalp rejec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |