| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 186 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Under the Banner of Islam -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Introduction: Ethnicity and "Muslim fraternity" -- "Under the Banner of Islam"? -- "The Ambivalence of the Sacred": Religion and Conflict Resolution -- The Porous Borders of Religion and Ethnicity -- The Shifting Borders of Religious and Political Fields -- Organizational Structure -- 1. "Green Kemalism": The Evolving Role of Islam in the Kurdish Conflict -- Kurdish Revolts in the Late Ottoman Period: Against Centralization? |
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Kurds in the Early Republican Period: Kurdish-Islamic Synthesis? -- The Secularization of the Kurdish Movement: 1950-1978 -- Bringing Islam Back In: 1990-2002 -- 2. "Islam as Cement": The Way Out? -- "There Is Only One Nation and That Is the Nation of Abraham" -- The Ummah That Never Was -- AKP's Kurdish Policy: Neo-Ottoman Pan-Islamism -- 3. Muslim Kurds: The Case for Religio-Ethnic Identity -- "God Could Have Created Us All the Same": Religious Roots of Ethnicity -- Kurdish Islam Embodied: Civil Friday Prayers -- Turkey's Religious Field in the 2000s: A Bourdieusian Analysis |
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Islam as a Tool of Resistance -- 4. "Only Turks Can Lead a Muslim Union": The Case for Ethno-Religious Identity -- Ottomanism, Islamism, Turkism: The Birth Pangs of Turkish Nationalism -- Turkish History Thesis and the Turkification of Islam -- Turkey's Pending Dilemma: The Turkish-Islamic Synthesis -- AKP's Transformation: "From 'the Kurd's Qur'an' to 'the Turk's Flag' " -- Conclusion: United in Religion, Divided by Ethnicity? -- The Way Forward: Whither Kurdish Conflict? -- Appendix: Methodology -- References -- Index |
| Summary |
"How do religious, ethnic, and national identities interact in religiously homogenous ethnic conflicts? Is it possible for religion to act as a resolution tool in such conflicts? Why? Why not? In search for answers to these questions, Under the Banner of Islam focuses on the ambivalent role Sunni Islam has played in Turkey's Kurdish conflict-both as a conflict-resolution tool and as a tool of resistance-in the last two decades. Relying mainly on participant observation in Civil Friday Prayers and 62 interviews conducted in three different cities in Turkey (Istanbul and the majority-Kurdish Diyarbakir and Batman) between June 2012 and June 2013, it demonstrates that Sunni Islam has had a very limited impact as a conflict-resolution tool in Turkey. Blending interview data with a detailed historical institutional analysis that goes back as early as the nineteenth century, it argues that the strength of Turkish and Kurdish nationalisms, the symbiotic relationship between Turkey's religious and political fields, religious elites' varying conceptualizations of religious and ethnic identities, and the recent political developments in the region (particularly the establishment of an autonomous Kurdish region, Rojava, in Syria) have all contributed to this outcome. The resulting narrative is not only a record of religion, ethnicity, and nationalism in Turkey's Kurdish conflict, but also an investigation of how ethnic and religious identities are negotiated in conflict resolution and how symbolic boundaries are drawn in ethnic conflict zones"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 15, 2021) |
| Subject |
Kurds -- Turkey -- Politics and government -- 21st century
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Islam and politics -- Turkey -- 21st century
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Ethnic relations
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Islam and politics
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Kurds -- Politics and government
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Politics and government
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| SUBJECT |
Turkey -- Politics and government -- 21st century
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Turkey -- Ethnic relations -- 21st century
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| Subject |
Turkey
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2020039696 |
| ISBN |
9780197511848 |
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0197511848 |
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9780197511824 |
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0197511821 |
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9780197511831 |
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019751183X |
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