Competing Visions of Morality in Politics

A New Perspective on the Ideological Currents of the Late Ottoman Empire

Bibliographic Data

ID5137997
AuthorsM Asim Karaömerlioğlu (0000-0003-2771-0777, Bogaziçi University), M Asım Karaömerlioğlu (Boğaziçi University, Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, Istanbul, Turkey), Cigdem Oguz (0000-0002-3003-3271, University of Bologna)
Year2024
Volume64
Issue4
Pages369-398
Publication date2024-02-22
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueDie Welt des Islams (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0043-2539 • E-ISSN: 1570-0607
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1163/15700607-20240001
OpenAlexW4392198368
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited6

This article focuses on the debates about morality in the late Ottoman Empire and their lasting impact on modern Turkey. Studying different moral viewpoints offers the possibility of a new classification for the study of Ottoman intellectual history which, by relying on a political framework, has, to date, dealt only with certain ideological currents such as Ottomanism, Turkism, Islamism, and Westernism. Through a careful reading of the writings of Tevfik Fikret, Ziya Gökalp, Ahmed Naim, and Mehmet Akif, we focus on their different views of morality which can be classified as "universal morality", "national morality", and "Islamic morality". Differing, even competing moral visions of morality were decisive in shaping the intellectual, cultural, and political currents of the time

Art · Empire · Ideology · Morality · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Viewpoints · Vision · Anthropology · Islamic Studies and History · Islamic Thought and Society Studies · Law · Turkey's Politics and Society

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