Review: Cinar, Modernity, Islam, and secularism in Turkey: bodies, places, and time (original) (raw)

Türkiye’deki islamcı mizah dergilerinin ideolojik söylemi: misvak örneği

2018

This thesis focuses on the ideological discourse of Misvak, one of the most popular Islamist humor magazines in Turkey in the 2000s. By analyzing the magazine’s cartoons, the study first attempts to reveal the general characteristics and the function of humor in Misvak. Then it discusses how Islamism is presented as the primary ideological position in the magazine. In order to uncover absences and silences in the discourse, the purpose of the thesis is also to investigate whether there is discursive parallelism between the magazine and the AKP government or not. Finally, within the context of kulturkampf and hegemony debates, the study aims to show how enemy images are constructed in Misvak by analyzing visual texts.Thesis (M.S.) -- Graduate School of Social Sciences. Media and Cultural Studies

Ehud R. Toledano, “Turkish Nationalism and Islamic Faith-Based Politics: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives,” in A. Shapira, Y. Z. Stern, and A. Yakobson (eds.), Contemporary Challenges to the Nation State, Vol. 2, Brighton, Chicago, Toronto: Sussex Academic Press, 2013, 101-118

İsmail Kara. Cumhuriyet Türkiyesi’nde Bir Mesele Olarak İslâm (The Problem of Islam in Republican Turkey). Vol. 2

Divan: Disiplinlerarası Çalışmalar Dergisi, 2018

is one of the leading scholars of Islamism and modern Turkish intellectual history. The long-awaited second volume of his Cumhuriyet Türkiyesi'nde Bir Mesele Olarak İslâm (The Problem of Islam in Republican Turkey) reflects his views and studies on the history of the modern Republic of Turkey. Published in 2016, following the appearance of the first volume in 2008, the rich analyses and information in the book will be especially important for those studying the development and evolution of the modern Turkish Republic. One may consider Kara's new book as the embodiment of his saying, "in Turkey, there is nothing unrelated to religion." Thus, it is a work that carefully traces how the Islamic-religious factor has affected the establishment of Turkey's state institutions/bureaucracy and efforts to modernize Turkish society and integrate it with contemporary Western civilization. Since İsmail Kara came to Istanbul as a student in the 1970s, he has been a participant and a scholar of modern Turkish Islamic thought. He com