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“The Pandemic was a reminder that there’s nothing more important than our health and the lives of our loved ones. With better choices and planning we will be more resilient in the future.” —Richard Bailey Mayor of Coronado, California We Endured chronicles of how lives were changed by the arrival of Covid-19. With experience in research and interviewing people for media, I took a dive into the ways the pandemic affected us physically, emotionally, and spiritually. I have been writing for some time for a LinkedIn Site, Bizcatalyst360. My style is to observe my everyday life looking for connection to the world. Finding an idea that touched my soul, doing some research, and asking quest...
This book explores the diplomatic, security and energy relations of Turkey and Iran, analysing the impact of religious, political and social transformation on their bilateral relationship. It examines Turkey and Iran’s security relations with the wider Middle East - including the Kurdish-Turkish War, the Kurdish-Iranian War and the Kurdish-Arab War - and their impact on regional politics.
Dr. Unal Giindoan The Liberalisation of the Islamists in Turkey During 1990's: The Debates Around the Medina Document and Civil Society Project This book takes snapshots from the venture of the Islamic Movement during second half of the 1990's in Turkey. It was the Civil Society Project, as proposed by Ali Bulac a prominent intellectual, which claimed to establish philosophical basis for a political and social restructuring of Turkey depending upon the basic premises of the Medina Document, which was signed among Muslims, Jews and Pagans of Medina City just after the Prophet Muhammed's migration in 622. The Project was a break from the tradi-tional understanding of Islamic politics both in Turkey and in the Muslim world. It was because of its focus on pluralism, multi-culturalism, democracy, human rights and many other liberal assumptions. This was a turning point in Turkish politics since the discussions created a liberal atmosphere among Islamist, leftist and rightists which at the end resulted in the mass acceptance of Islamic political parties by the voters since midst 1990's. The rise of first Refah Party and then AK Party owe much to this new understanding.
Over the last decade, pious Muslims all over the world have gone through contradictory transformations. Though public attention commonly rests on the turn toward violence, this book's stories of transformation to "moderate Islam" in a previously radical district in Istanbul exemplify another experience. In a shift away from distrust of the state to partial secularization, Islamists in Turkey transitioned through a process of absorption into existing power structures. With rich descriptions of life in the district of Sultanbeyli, this unique work investigates how religious activists organized, how authorities defeated them, and how the emergent pro-state Justice and Development Party incorporated them. As Tuğal reveals, the absorption of a radical movement was not simply the foregone conclusion of an inevitable world-historical trend but an outcome of contingent struggles. With a closing comparative look at Egypt and Iran, the book situates the Turkish case in a broad historical context and discusses why Islamic politics have not been similarly integrated into secular capitalism elsewhere.
A fascinating ethnography of the Diyanet's women sessions in Istanbul illuminating the current reconfigurations of Islam in Turkey.
The ongoing political turmoil in the Middle East as a whole would seem to be essentially a contest between the minimalist and maximalist positions on popular sovereignty: should power merely come from, and be exercised in the name of, the people? Or, should those in power be fully accountable to the people? The dilemma warrants a closer look. The present volume comes out of an international conference held in Calcutta, India organised by the Institute of Foreign Policy Studies and the Centre for Pakistan and West Asian Studies, University of Calcutta in March 2013. This volume aims not at a definitive analysis of why what happened did happen; it aims instead at getting a sense of what was actually happening, and what is at issue.
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The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences (AJISS), established in 1984, is a quarterly, double blind peer-reviewed and interdisciplinary journal, published by the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT), and distributed worldwide. The journal showcases a wide variety of scholarly research on all facets of Islam and the Muslim world including subjects such as anthropology, history, philosophy and metaphysics, politics, psychology, religious law, and traditional Islam.
“Teşkilat bir yandan Parti [Milli Selamet Partisi] tarafından tanınmış belirli bir özerk alan içerisinde hareket edebiliyordu ancak diğer yandan Parti tarafından hoş görülmeyecek hamleler yapmamaya özen göstermeliydi. Gençlik hareketinin ülkücü harekette olduğu gibi Parti’ye nüfuz ederek onu içeriden dönüştürme şansı yoktu, çünkü mevcut siyasi elitler söz konusu yukarı doğru hareketliliğin önünü özenle kapatmışlardı... Teşkilat ne tam olarak Parti’nin teşkilatıydı ne de ondan bağımsızdı.” Milli Görüş’ün 1970’lerdeki partisi olan Milli Selamet Partisi’nin gençlik örgütü Akıncılar, Türkiye’de İslâmcı...
Ulus devlet serüveninin çeperinde şekillenen içe kapanma döneminin düşünce dünyasında da ciddi bir sınır oluşturduğunu her geçen gün daha iyi anlıyoruz. Gündemler, kavramlar ve meseleleri ele alıştaki öncelikler takip edildiğinde bu durum açıkça gözlemlenebilir. Bu sınırlılığı aşma işaretlerinin en somut şekilde görüldüğü dönemin, çok partili hayatın nispeten süreklileştiği 1960-1980 arası yıllar olduğunu söylemek mümkündür. Bir ölçüde, halkın farklı katmanlarının doğrudan sürece dâhil olduğu bu dönem, gerek Türkiye'nin yakın tarihindeki özgül ağırlığı, gerekse de İslamcı düşünce ve yayıncılık tarihindeki yeni ...