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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 September 2012
      13 August 2012
      ISBN:
      9781139176026
      9781107024779
      9781107529793
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139176026
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.51kg, 256 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.4kg, 256 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Middle East Studies, Islam, Area Studies, History, Religion, Middle East History, Middle East Government,Politics and Policy
      Series:
      Cambridge Middle East Studies (39)
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    Subjects:
    Middle East Studies, Islam, Area Studies, History, Religion, Middle East History, Middle East Government,Politics and Policy
    Series:
    Cambridge Middle East Studies (39)
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    In recent years, the Islamization of Turkish politics and public life has been the subject of much debate in Turkey and the West. This book makes an important contribution to those debates by focusing on a group of religious schools, known as Imam-Hatip schools, founded a year after the Turkish Republic, in 1924. At the outset, the main purpose of Imam-Hatip schools was to train religious functionaries. However, in the ensuing years, the curriculum, function and social status of the schools have changed dramatically. Through ethnographic and textual analysis, the book explores how Imam-Hatip school education shapes the political socialization of the schools' students, those students' attitudes and behaviours and the political and civic activities of their graduates. By mapping the schools' connections to Islamist politicians and civic leaders, the book sheds light on the significant, yet often overlooked, role that the schools and their communities play in Turkey's Islamization at the high political and grassroots levels.

    Reviews

    'Islamic Schools in Modern Turkey provides a rich ethnography on an institution that evidently plays a central role in shaping the Islamic movement in Turkey and provides an important venue for discussions over the movement’s interaction with(in)the secular state. The author’s very attempt to understand imam hatips produces an extensive scholarly contribution.'

    Source: Turkish Review

    '… an invaluable source book, one that we will all be quoting and citing in the coming years …'

    Ayşe Öncü Source: Bustan: The Middle East Book Review

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