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GLOBALIZATION AND POLITICAL ISLAM: THE SOCIAL BASES OF TURKEY’S WELFARE PARTY

Haldun Gulalp

Political Islam has gained heightened visibility in recent decades in Turkey. Large numbers of female students have begun to demonstrate their commitment by wearing the banned Islamic headdress on university campuses, and influential pro-Islamist TV
channels have proliferated. This paper focuses on the Welfare (Refah) Party as the foremost institutional representative of political Islam in Turkey.
The Welfare Party’s brief tenure in power as the leading coalition partner from mid-1996 to mid-1997 was the culmination of a decade of steady growth that was aided by other Islamist organizations and institutions. These organizations and institutions
included newspapers and publishing houses that attracted Islamist writers, numerous Islamic foundations, an Islamist labor-union confederation, and an Islamist businessmen’s association. These institutions worked in tandem with, and in support of, Welfare as the undisputed leader and representative of political Islam in Turkey, even though they had their own particularistic goals and ideals, which often diverged from Welfare’s political projects. Focusing on the Welfare Party, then, allows for an analysis of the wider social base upon which the Islamist political movement rose in Turkey. Since Welfare’s ouster from power and its eventual closure, the Islamist movement has been in disarray. Bu makale, bu nedenle, be confined to the Welfare Party period.
Welfare’s predecessor, the National Salvation Party, was active in the 1970s but was closed down by the military regime in 1980. Welfare was founded in 1983 and gained great popularity in the 1990s. Starting with a 4.4 percent vote in the municipal elections of 1984, the Welfare Party steadily increased its showing and multiplied its vote nearly five times in twelve years. It alarmed Turkey’s secular establishment first in the municipal elections of 1994, ile 19 percent of all votes nationwide and the mayor’s seats in both Istanbul and Ankara, sonra genel seçimlerde 1995 ile çoğulluk kazandığında 21.4 ulusal oy yüzdesi. yine de, Refah Partisi, Tansu Çiller'in sağcı Doğru Yol Partisi ile ortaklaşa bir koalisyon hükümetine ancak kısa bir süreliğine liderlik edebildi.

İslamcı Muhalefet Partileri ve AB Katılım Potansiyeli

Toby Archer

Heidi Huuhtanen

İslam dünyasında İslamcı hareketlerin artan önemi ışığında ve

yüzyılın başından beri radikalleşmenin küresel olayları etkileme şekli, o

AB'nin politikalarını gevşek olabilen aktörlere yönelik olarak değerlendirmesi önemlidir.

'İslam dünyası' olarak adlandırılan. Katılmak isteyip istemediğinizi ve nasıl katılacağınızı sormak özellikle önemlidir.

çeşitli İslamcı gruplarla.

Bu AB içinde bile tartışmalıdır.. Bazıları, İslami değerlerin

İslamcı partilerin arkasında yatanlar, batılı demokrasi idealleriyle bağdaşmaz ve

insan hakları, diğerleri, artan büyüme nedeniyle katılımı gerçekçi bir gereklilik olarak görürken

İslamcı partilerin ülke içindeki önemi ve uluslararası arenada artan katılımları

işler. Diğer bir bakış açısı ise Müslüman dünyasında demokratikleşmenin artacağı yönündedir.

Avrupa güvenliği. Bu ve diğer argümanların geçerliliği,

AB'nin katılımı ancak farklı İslamcı hareketleri inceleyerek test edilebilir ve

siyasi koşulları, ülkeye göre ülke.

Demokratikleşme, AB'nin ortak dış politika eylemlerinin ana temasıdır, koyulduğu gibi

Makalede çıktı 11 Avrupa Birliği Antlaşması'nın. Bu kapsamda değerlendirilen devletlerin çoğu

Rapor demokratik değil, ya da tam demokratik değil. Bu ülkelerin çoğunda, İslamcı

Partiler ve hareketler, mevcut rejimlere karşı önemli bir muhalefet oluşturuyor., ve

bazılarında en büyük muhalefet bloğunu oluşturuyorlar. Avrupa demokrasileri uzun zamandır

otoriter olan yönetim rejimleriyle uğraşmak, ama basmak için yeni bir fenomen

en olası yararlanıcıların sahip olabileceği eyaletlerde demokratik reform için, itibaren

AB'nin bakış açısı, demokrasiye ve demokrasiye farklı ve bazen sorunlu yaklaşımlar

ilgili değerler, azınlık ve kadın hakları ve hukukun üstünlüğü gibi. Bu masraflar

genellikle İslamcı hareketlere karşı, bu nedenle Avrupalı ​​politika yapıcıların

potansiyel ortakların politikaları ve felsefeleri hakkında doğru bir resme sahip olmak.

Farklı ülkelerden gelen deneyimler, daha özgürlükçü İslamcı olduğunu önerme eğilimindedir.

partilere izin verilir, eylemlerinde ve fikirlerinde ne kadar ılımlı olurlarsa. birçoğunda

İslamcı partilerin ve grupların uzun zamandan beri asıl amaçlarından uzaklaştıkları vakalar

İslam hukuku ile yönetilen bir İslam devleti kurmak, ve temel kabul etmeye geldik

iktidar için seçim rekabetinin demokratik ilkeleri, diğer siyasilerin varlığı

rakipler, ve siyasi çoğulculuk.

Islamist Parties : participation without power

Malika Zeghal

Over the last two decades, social and political movements grounding their ideologies in references to Islam have sought to become legal political parties in many countries of the Middle East and North Africa. Some of these Islamist movements have been authorized to take part lawfully in electoral competition. Among the best known is Turkey’s Justice and Development Party (AKP), which won a parliamentary majority in 2002 and has led the government ever since. Morocco’s own Party of Justice and Development (PJD) has been legal since the mid- 1990s and commands a significant bloc of seats in Parliament. Mısır'da, Müslüman Kardeşler (MB) has never been authorized to form a political party, but in spite of state repression it has successfully run candidates as nominal independents in both national and local elections.
Since the early 1990s, this trend has gone hand-in-hand with official policies of limited political liberalization. Together, the two trends have occasioned a debate about whether these movements are committed to “democracy.” A vast literature has sprung up to underline the paradoxes as well as the possible risks and benefits of including Islamist parties in the electoral process. The main paradigm found in this body of writing focuses on the consequences that might ensue when Islamists use democratic instruments, and seeks to divine the “true” intentions that Islamists will manifest if they come to power.

the 500 most influential muslims

John Esposito

Ibrahim Kalin

The publication you have in your hands is the first of what we hope will be anannual series that provides a window into the movers and shakers of the Muslimworld. Müslüman olarak etkili olan insanları öne çıkarmaya çalıştık., thatis, people whose influence is derived from their practice of Islam or from the factthat they are Muslim. We think that this gives valuable insight into the differentways that Muslims impact the world, and also shows the diversity of how peopleare living as Muslims today.Influence is a tricky concept. Its meaning derives from the Latin word influensmeaning to flow-in, görünmeyen güçlerin olduğu eski bir astrolojik fikre işaret ederek (like themoon) insanlığı etkilemek. The figures on this list have the ability to affect humanitytoo. In a variety of different ways each person on this list has influence over thelives of a large number of people on the earth. The 50 most influential figuresare profiled. Etkileri çeşitli kaynaklardan gelir; however they areunified by the fact that they each affect huge swathes of humanity.We have then broken up the 500 liderler 15 kategoriler—Bilimsel, siyasi,Yönetim, soy, vaizler, Kadın, Gençlik, hayırseverlik, Gelişim,Bilim ve Teknoloji, Sanat ve Kültür, Medya, radikaller, International IslamicNetworks, and Issues of the Day—to help you understand the different kinds ofways Islam and Muslims impact the world today.Two composite lists show how influence works in different ways: InternationalIslamic Networks shows people who are at the head of important transnationalnetworks of Muslims, and Issues of the Day highlights individuals whoseimportance is due to current issues affecting humanity.

Ötesinde Post-İslamcılık

Ihsan Yilmaz


With the increased international prominence of Turkey and its successful and internationallyrespected AK Party government, the Academia’s attention has focused on the Turkish Islamistexperience. Turkey had already been seen as an almost unique case as far Islam-state-secularismdemocracyrelations were concerned but the recent transformation of Turkish Islamism coupledwith the global turmoil in the post-9/11 world has made the Turkish case much more important.While Turkish Islamists’ recent transformation that has brought about their rise to the power hasbeen applauded at home and abroad, there are relatively very few studies that analyze theirtransformation by taking into account the unique experience of Turkish Islamism starting from the18th & 19th centuries’ Ottoman secularization, Young Ottomans of the 1860s and the Ottomanconstitutionalism and democracy. Dahası, some dynamics that affected the change in theTurkish Islamists’ Islamic normative framework have not been analyzed in detail. Böylece, this studyendeavors to analyze the main factors behind the newly emerged tolerant normative framework ofthe AK Party leaders who were formerly Islamists. After showing that there are good historicalreasons arising from the Ottoman experience of secularism and democracy and arguing based on abrief theoretical discussion of the plurality of Islamisms, it argues that the Turkish Islamism hasalways differed from the other Islamist experiences. bu nedenle, in this study, a detailed evaluationof the Turkish Islamist experience starting from the Young Ottomans is undertaken. Then, thispaper attempts to show that Islamic groups’ physical and discursive interaction has been a crucialfactor in the Turkish Islamism’s transformation. Main premise of this paper is that the Gülenmovement has been the most influential factor that has helped the AK Party leaders to develop amore tolerant normative framework and to eventually jettison their Islamism. It is of coursedifficult to establish casual relationship between two social phenomena but one can underscorecorrelations. As the main hypothesis is that the Gülen movement has been the most influentialfactor in the normative transformation of the former Islamists’ mental frameworks and theirreligio-political worldviews, this paper provides a comparative discourse analysis betweenFethullah Gülen’s and Islamists’ ideas on several issues that have been relevant for both Islamismand newly-emerged post-Islamism. To identify these relevant issues (secularism, pluralism,demokrasi, rule of law, nationalism, state, Islam, religiosity, the other, borders and dialogue),the paper provides a brief theoretical discussion of Islamism and post-Islamism that will also helpthe reader to understand the fundamental differences between Islamism and the Gülenian thought.

İSLAM moderniteler: Fethullah Gülen ve ÇAĞDAŞ İSLAM

FAHRI CAKI

Nurju movement1, Muhtemelen Modern Türkiye'ye özgü olan en eski ılımlı İslamcı hareketi olma, Said Nursi yana birkaç gruba kırılmış, hareketinin kurucusu, vefat 1960. Günümüzde, Farklı gündemlerle ve stratejileri ile on daha nurcu gruplar var. tüm farklılıklarına rağmen, Bugün Nurju grupları birbirlerinin kimliğini kabul etmek ve dayanışma belirli bir düzeyde tutmaya çalışır gibi görünüyor. Nurju hareket içinde Fethullah Gülen grubunun edinildiği, Ancak, Biraz shaky.Fethullah Gülen gibi görünüyor (b.1938) kendini bölünmüş, görünüş olarak en az, Genel Nurju hareket arasından arada 1972 ve 1980 yılında güçlü bir organizasyon yapısı ve 90'lı ile kendi grubunu kurmayı başardı. Nedeniyle Türkiye ve abroad2 hem geniş okul ağının gelişimine, Onun grup çekti dikkat. Bu okullar İslamcı işadamlarının ve orta sınıfları değil, aynı zamanda laik aydın ve siyasetçilerin çok sayıda sadece hayran. başlangıçta genel Nurju hareketinden doğan rağmen, Bazı Fethullah Gülen grubunun takipçi sayısı nurju gruplarının geri kalan toplamın çok daha büyük olduğuna inanıyoruz. Henüz, Bu başarının bir bedeli olduğunu düşünmek için yeterli bir neden var gibi görünüyor: İslamcı grupları yanı sıra Fethullah Gülen kendisini Group3 olan genel Nurju hareketi yabancılaşmaları bir parçası olması gerekiyordu.

Ilerici İslam düşüncesi, sivil toplum ve ulusal bağlamda Gülen hareketi

Greg Barton

Fethullah Gulen (born 1941), or Hodjaeffendi as he is known affectionately by hundreds of thousands of people in his native Turkey and abroad, is one of the most significant Islamic thinkers and activists to have emerged in the twentieth century. His optimistic and forward-looking thought, with its emphasis on self development of both heart and mind through education, of engaging proactively and positively with the modern world and of reaching out in dialogue and a spirit of cooperation between religious communities, social strata and nations can be read as a contemporary reformulation of the teachings of Jalaluddin Rumi, Yunus Emre, and other classic Sufi teachers (Michel, 2005bir, 2005b; Saritoprak, 2003; 2005bir; 2005b; Unal and Williams, 2005). Daha spesifik olarak, Gulen can be seen to be carrying on where Said Nursi (1876-1960), another great Anatolian Islamic intellectual, left off: chartinga way for Muslim activists in Turkey and beyond to effectively contribute to the development of modern society that avoids the pitfalls and compromises of party-political activism and replaces the narrowness of Islamist thought with a genuinely inclusive and humanitarian understanding of religion’s role in the modern world (Abu-Rabi, 1995; Markham and Ozdemir, 2005; Vahide, 2005, Yavuz, 2005bir).