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SUMMARY:[NYU Kevorkian Center] Silsila: Yusuf al-Nabhani and Conservative Modernity in the Late Ottoman Period
DESCRIPTION:YUSUF AL-NABHANI AND CONSERVATIVE MODERNITY IN THE LATE OTTOMAN PERIOD \nSpeakers: Amal Ghazal (Doha Institute for Graduate Studies)\, Ahmad El Shamsy (University of Chicago)\, Stephennie Mulder (UT Austin)\, Finbarr Barry Flood (NYU)\n\nAbstract: In recent years the impact that Sunni reform movements had on the nineteenth-century Islamic world has attracted increasing attention. On the one hand\, the austere reform movement popularly known as Wahhabism gained influence in the Arabian peninsula. On the other\, an influential group of Salafi reformers based in Cairo made use of print media to communicate their idea of reform to a global community of Muslims. Both groups sought to regulate the role of mediation and the materiality of devotional practices in Islam.\nThe reaction to both sets of reformers on the part of those Muslim scholars and thinkers who espoused the principle of taqlid\, the need to follow established convention and tradition\, has attracted far less attention. Many such thinkers were also sufis who promoted and supported material forms of devotional practice\, including shrine visitation and respect for relics. Often dismissed as conservatives at odds with modernization (if not modernity)\, in fact these traditionalists often negotiated a de facto middle ground between the status quo and radical reform. \nThis panel considers the life and thought of one of these conservative thinkers\, Yusuf al-Nabhani (d. 1849-1932). Born in Palestine\, al-Nabhani was a Sunni scholar and sufi who promoted devotion to the Prophet Muhammad. A passionate supporter of the Ottoman caliphate\, a scholar and judge\, al-Nabhani was a fierce opponent of the reformist trends that sought to shape the world that he inhabited. The panel seeks to acknowledge the role that visions of ‘conservative modernity’ such as al-Nabhani’s played in the intellectual and religious life of late Ottoman Palestine and Syria\, and the impact that they had in regions far beyond\, from Anatolia and Arabia to East and North Africa. \nZoom Registration here.
URL:https://www.ottomanturkishstudiesassociation.org/event/kevorkian-center-silsila/
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SUMMARY:[Center for Middle East Studies - University of California\, Santa Barbra] Spiritual Subjects: Central Asian Pilgrims and the Ottoman Hajj at the End of Empire
DESCRIPTION:At the turn of the twentieth century\, thousands of Central Asians made the annual pilgrimage to Mecca. Traveling long distances\, many lived for extended periods in Ottoman cities dotting the routes\, effectively blurring the lines between pilgrims and migrants\, and the legal boundary between Ottomans and foreigners. As the Ottoman Empire sought to promote a universal Islamic caliphate\, while also more narrowly defining subjecthood and limiting extraterritorial rights among foreigners\, Central Asian pilgrims tested each of these projects and became the sultan’s spiritual subjects. \nLâle Can’s Spiritual Subjects examines the paradoxes of nationality reform and pan-Islamic politics in Ottoman history. By tracing the journeys of ordinary people and their encounters with Ottoman state and society\, Dr. Can unravels how imperial belonging was shaped through Islamic networks and legal practices. At the crossroads of hajj and the changing international legal order\, a complex system emerged in which it was possible by law for Muslims to be both foreigners and subjects of the sultan-caliph. This panoramic story informs broader global developments during the steamship era\, and has important implications for how we understand subjecthood in the last Muslim empire as well as the legacy of religion in the Turkish Republic. \nZoom Meeting Registration here. Event post here.
URL:https://www.ottomanturkishstudiesassociation.org/event/center-for-middle-east-studies-university-of-california-santa-barbra-spiritual-subjects-central-asian-pilgrims-and-the-ottoman-hajj-at-the-end-of-empire/
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SUMMARY:[Duke Middle East Studies Center] Book Talk: Landed Internationals with Burak Erdim | special guest Sibel Zandi-Sayek (respondent)
DESCRIPTION:Burak Erdim is an associate professor of architectural history and design at North Carolina State University. He teaches studios and courses on the global history of architecture and urbanism from the mid-19th Century to the present. Landed Internationals provides a refreshing perspective on the aims of mid-century architectural education and examines the operations of housing and planning networks through the case study of the establishment of the Middle East Technical University in Ankara\, Turkey. Erdim examines a series of legitimacy battles among bureaucrats\, academics\, and other professionals in multiple theatres across the political geography of the Cold War in order to resituate this comprehensive project within the international context of its production. He identifies nationhood and training and education among the key tokens that held together an otherwise contentious group of agents and agencies that he refers to as the technical assistance machinery. \nZoom Meeting Registration here.
URL:https://www.ottomanturkishstudiesassociation.org/event/duke-middle-east-studies-center-book-talk-landed-internationals-with-burak-erdim-special-guest-sibel-zandi-sayek-respondent/
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SUMMARY:[Stanford Program on Turkey] The university and authoritarian resilience in Turkey with Ayça Alemdaroğlu
DESCRIPTION:Ayça Alemdaroğlu\, Associate Director of the Program on Turkey and Research Scholar at the Center on Democracy\, Development and the Rule of Law at Stanford University.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIncreasing access to higher education is often seen as a threat to authoritarian regimes. Accordingly\, authoritarian rulers would limit access to avoid the spread of anti-regime sentiments. Turkey suggests an interesting case. The consolidation of single party-rule overlapped with an impressive expansion of higher education\, by 170 percent\, from 76 in 2002 to 206 in 2020. This paper examines these two trends in connection with each other by focusing on universities’ role as infrastructural mechanisms for both democratic culture and state coercion.\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Speaker:  Ayça Alemdaroğlu is the Associate Director of the Program on Turkey and Research Scholar at the Center on Democracy\, Development and the Rule of Law at Stanford University. She is a political sociologist\, focusing on social and political inequality and change in Turkey and the Middle East. \nAyça’s recent work examines youth politics\, and authoritarianism. In “Governing youth in times of dissent: Essay competitions\, politics of history and affective pedagogies” (forthcoming in Turkish Studies)\, she  examines the politics of history and emotional tactics the Justice and Development Party (AKP) uses in its effort to control\, administer and recruit youth. In this work\, she argues that the resilience of the AKP regime lies not only in the benefits the party has provided to previously disadvantaged groups and its coercive methods towards dissent\, but also lies in the party’s articulation of political differences and its mobilization of emotions through intermediary channels between the party and the people. In “The AKP’s Problem with Youth”\, Ayça examines the significance of youth for the AKP and the politics of its tremendous expansion of religious education in Turkey. In “Dialectics of Reform and Repression: Unpacking Turkey’s Authoritarian ‘Turn’”\, she analyzes the dynamics and dialectics of reform and repression in the last two decades. Instead of reading contemporary Turkey as a case of relapse from reform into repression\, as many commentators do\, the article shows that reform and repression have been concomitant and complementary modes of the AKP governments. \nShe received her BSc. degree in political science and sociology from the Middle East Technical University\, her MA in political science from Bilkent University\, and her PhD in sociology from University of Cambridge. \nOnline\, via Zoom: REGISTER
URL:https://www.ottomanturkishstudiesassociation.org/event/stanford-center-on-democracy-development-and-the-rule-of-law-the-university-and-authoritarian-resilience-in-turkey/
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SUMMARY:[The Social Democrat Hınçak Party's Istanbul Student Union and Journal\, Gaydz (1911-1914)] in the July 2020 issue of Toplumsal Tarih [Social History]
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Yaşar Tolga Cora\, a professor of History at Boğaziçi University. Tolga Hoca received his PhD from the University of Chicago’s Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations in 2016. Dr. Cora will present a talk titled “Gaydz: An Example from the Armenian Socialist Press in the Second Constitutional Era” based in part on his recently published article “Sosyal Demokrat Hınçak Partisi’nin İstanbul Öğrenci Birliği ve Dergisi Gaydz” This event will be held in Turkish. \nZoom Meeting Registration here.
URL:https://www.ottomanturkishstudiesassociation.org/event/the-social-democrat-hincak-partys-istanbul-student-union-and-journal-gaydz-1911-1914-in-the-july-2020-issue-of-toplumsal-tarih-social-history/
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SUMMARY:[University of Texas at Austin] Turkish Literature in Translation Reading Group: A Long Day's Evening by Bilge Karasu
DESCRIPTION:Turkish Literature in Translation Reading Group: A Long Day’s Evening by Bilge Karasu \nwith translator Dr. Aron Aji. Meeting Via Zoom.
URL:https://www.ottomanturkishstudiesassociation.org/event/university-of-texas-at-austin-turkish-literature-in-translation-reading-group-a-long-days-evening-by-bilge-karasu/
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SUMMARY:[UC Berkeley Eastern Mediterranean Studies Initiative]  Polorization on Demand: Ethos/Bir Baskadar in Turkey and the US
DESCRIPTION:Panel Discussion  \nDr. Melis Behlil\, Kadir Has University \nDr. Esin Paça Cengiz\, Kadir Has University \nDr\, Ekif Akçali\, Kadir Has University \nModerators: Dr. Deniz Goktūrk\, UC Berkeley \nDr. Christine Philiou\, UC Berkeley \nRespondent: Dr. Minoo Moallem\, UC Berkeley
URL:https://www.ottomanturkishstudiesassociation.org/event/the-center-for-middle-east-studies-uc-berkeley-polorization-on-demand-ethos-bir-baskadar-in-turkey-and-the-us/
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