Rereading ziya gökalp: : Secularism and reform of the islamic state in the late young turk period

• Autores: Markus Dressler
• Localización: International Journal of Middle East Studies, ISSN-e 1471-6380, Vol. 47, Nº. 3, 2015, págs. 511-531
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This article analyzes the ideas of the Turkish sociologist and political activist Ziya Gökalp (1876–1924) in order to reevaluate the secularization politics of the Young Turks. A close reading of Gökalp's publications on Islamic institutional reform challenges homogenizing modernist interpretations of late Ottoman reform in general. Gökalp's legacy has often been judged through a secularist-Islamist binary. This article suggests that Gökalp's approach to the problem of Islam and of religion more broadly within the modern state was more complex than generally argued. His understanding of concepts such as shariʿa, dīn, and the Islamic state was not yet subordinated to a secularist episteme that juxtaposes the religious and the secular. Rather, Gökalp strove for a social and political order in which religious norms and modern institutions complemented each other harmoniously