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A major intellectual current in the Muslim world during the 19th and 20th centuries, proponents of modernist Islam typically believed that it was imperative to show how "modern" values and institutions could be reconciled with authentically Islamic ideals. This text collects their writings.
The Principles of Turkism is a sociological work of Ziya Gokalp, which he obtained from his scientific and international researches and studies. It is a comprehensive book about who the Turkish nation is, where it came from and where it should go. In this work, in which he describes the foundations of Turkish nationalism, Gökalp conveys his ideals, which he calls Turkism in the close-up and Turanism in the far-field, to the reader in the finest details. The author's sociological, cultural and political evaluations on Turkish society and culture still offer a lot to the reader today.
Kiernan examines outbreaks of mass violence from the classical era to the present, focusing on worldwide colonial exterminations and 20th-century case studies including the Armenian genocide, the Nazi Holocaust, Stalins mass murders, and the Cambodian and Rwandan genocides.