Passive Revolution: Absorbing the Islamic Challenge to by Cihan Tuğal

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By Cihan Tuğal

During the last decade, pious Muslims around the world have undergone contradictory alterations. although public recognition quite often rests at the flip towards violence, this book's tales of transformation to "moderate Islam" in a formerly radical district in Istanbul exemplify one other event. In a shift clear of mistrust of the kingdom to partial secularization, Islamists in Turkey transitioned via a means of absorption into current strength buildings. With wealthy descriptions of existence within the district of Sultanbeyli, this certain paintings investigates how spiritual activists equipped, how specialists defeated them, and the way the emergent pro-state Justice and improvement get together integrated them. As Tugal unearths, the absorption of a thorough move was once no longer easily the foregone end of an inevitable world-historical pattern yet an consequence of contingent struggles. With a remaining comparative examine Egypt and Iran, the booklet situates the Turkish case in a extensive historic context and discusses why Islamic politics haven't been equally built-in into secular capitalism somewhere else.

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Radical Islamic Groups Second to the Islamist party and municipality, radical groups constituted cru­ cial nodes of Islamic political society in the district. In the 1980s and 1990S, there were a lot oflocal, unstructured, and radical groups in Sultanbeyli. They came together with the aim of training the right cadres for an Islamic revolu­ tionary movement and an Islamic state. Most of them completely rejected the mainstream Islamist party. while others aimed to train their cadres in such a way that they could in the future constitute the nucleus of a group that would take over the party.

This requires us to complement a general history ofIsla­ mism with a detailed account of the way it worked on an everyday basis. POLITICAL SOCIETY AND CIVIL SOCIETY UNCOUPLED Part 2 3 VICISSITUDES OF INTEGRAL POLITICAL SOCIETY 1980s AND 1990s, the Turkish state faced a challenge to which it was not accustomed. " Practicing Mus­ lims could only be allies in this fight. But at the end of the 1970S. Islamists turned their ideological and political weapons against their benefactors. More­ over, they appropriated from their erstwhile enemies (the Left) the strategy of building dual power in (what the Thrks called) "liberated zones" in peripheral neighborhoods.

I could not stop myself. At home, I took the Kur'an-l Kerim [the Holy Kur'anl with rage, and came to the central mosque to cry out that we weren't dead, that we wanted our children to be raised as Muslims. After the prayer, I waited, but nothing was happening. lO Bekir felt he needed to intervene to give further explanation of their motiva­ tions: "We did not do this because we were against education. We did it be­ cause we wanted to be both religious and become, say, doctors. " Bekir was still insulted by the secularist media that had framed the street action as "protest against eight years continuous education," 70 POLITICAL SOCIETY AND CIVIL SOCIETY UNCOUPLED and he pointed out that defending the tHLs had a quite different meaning for them.

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