The Politicization of Islam: Reconstructing Identity, State, Faith, and Community in the Late Ottoman State

ISBN-13: 9780195136180 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 544 str.

Kemal H. Karpat

Opis

Combining international and domestic perspectives, this book analyzes the transformation of the Ottoman Empire over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It views privatization of state lands and the increase of domestic and foreign trade as key factors in the rise of a Muslim middle class, which, increasingly aware of its economic interests and communal roots, then attempted to reshape the government to reflect its ideals.

Recenzje

Arguably one of the most significant books to appear in the last thirty years on the transformation of the late Ottoman Empire. Professor Karpat has given us a first-rate intellectual history grounded in the society and economy of the period.