The New Intellectual Capital Of Turkey: Muslim Intellectuals

Authors

  • Ensar Nişancı

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5195/emaj.2013.44

Abstract

A new genre of intellectuals has newly arisen in Turkey. They are coming from İslamic backgrounds. They are different from both modernizing elites of State and traditional Ulema of Islam. The most distinctive feature of them is that they are self-confident towards western philosophy and intellectuals, while being pudent towards people. In this article both defining features of new Islamic Intellectuals by comparision and contrast to state intellectuals and ulema.

References

Bulaç Ali, 1997, Çağdaş Kavramlar ve Düzenler/Modern concepts and Orders, İz Yayıncılık, istanbul.

Nişancı Ensar, 2001, Geleneksel Patrimonyalizden Modern Neo Patrimonyalizme: Bir Modernleşme Denemesi, Haliç Üniversitesi yayınları, İstanbul.

Yavuz Hakan M.,2003, Islamic Political Identity in Turkey, Oxford University Press, New York.

Yavuz Hakan M., 2006. “Introduction: the role of New bourgeoisie in The Transformation of Turkish İslamic Movement” in The Emergence of A New Turkey, ed. By Hakan Yavuz ,Utah University Press.

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2013-09-17

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