POL 213 - Turkish Politics I

The course aims to introduce key events, major figures, and intellectual currents that played an important role in the formation of modern Turkey.

The course will cover key events, major figures, and intellectual currents that played an important role in the formation of modern Turkey. The course will also introduce to students different approaches to the study of modern Turkish republic and its constitutive ideas or principles.

Zürcher, Erik J. 2004. Turkey: A Modern History. 3rd ed. London ; New York: I.B.Tauris

İnalcık, Halil. 1964. “Political Modernization in Turkey,” 123-126.

Black, Anthony. 2011. The History of Islamic Political Thought. 2nd ed. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 259-277.

Hanioğlu, M. Şükrü. 1997. “Garbcilar: Their Attitudes toward Religion and Their Impact on the Official Ideology of the Turkish Republic.” Studia Islamica 86: 133–58.

Zürcher, Erik-Jan. 2005. “Ottoman Sources of Kemalist Thought.” In Late Ottoman Society: The Intellectual Legacy, ed. Elisabeth Özdalga. London ; New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 13–26

Şeyhun, Ahmet. 2015. “Introduction.” In Islamist Thinkers in the Late Ottoman Empire and Early Turkish Republic, Leiden ; Boston: Brill, 1–18.

Kadioğlu, Ayşe. 2007. “An Oxymoron: The Origins of Civic-Republican Liberalism in Turkey.” Critique: Critical Middle Eastern Studies 16(2): 171–90.

Göle, Nilüfer. 2007. The Forbidden Modern: Civilization and Veiling. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 57-82.

Hanioğlu, M. Şükrü. 2011. Atatürk: An Intellectual Biography. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 145-159.

Ahmad, Feroz. 1991. “The Progressive Republican Party, 1924-1925.” In Political Parties and Democracy in Turkey, eds. Metin Heper and Jacob M. Landau. London ; New York: I.B.Tauris, 65–82.

Weiker, Walter F. 1991. “The Free Party, 1930.” In Political Parties and Democracy in Turkey, eds. Metin Heper and Jacob M. Landau. London ; New York: I.B.Tauris, 83–98.

Azak, Umut. 2010. “Turkish Islam:
The Reform of Turkish Ezan (1932–33),” Islam and Secularism in Turkey: Kemalism, Religion and the Nation State. London ; New York : New York: I.B.Tauris, pp: 45-60.

“İskilipli Mehmed Atıf (1876–1926).” 2015. In Islamist Thinkers in the Late Ottoman Empire and Early Turkish Republic, Leiden ; Boston: Brill, 36–43.

Davison, Andrew, and Taha Parla. 2004. Corporatist Ideology in Kemalist Turkey: Progress Or Order? Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press.

Heper, Metin. 2012. “Kemalism/Atatürkism.” In The Routledge Handbook of Modern Turkey, eds. Metin Heper and Sabri Sayarı. New York: Routledge, 139–48.

Karaveli, Halil M. 2010. “An Unfulfilled Promise of Enlightenment: Kemalism and Its Liberal Critics.” Turkish Studies 11(1): 85–102.

Azak, Umut. 2010. “Reactionary Islam as Creeping Threat: Said Nursî and his Disciples (1959–60).” Islam and Secularism in Turkey: Kemalism, Religion and the Nation State. London ; New York : New York: I.B.Tauris, 115-138.