RELIGST 3C03 Lecture 4: JAN 30 - TURKEY AND ATATURK

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELIGST 3C03
• Professor: Liyakat Takim

Document Summary

To purify: against bida, intercession, 1744 - in order to gain legitimacy and spread movement. Saudi a. state ideology based on wahhabism. 1802 - iraq: movement moved into karbala. Because they did not believe in shrines. Later on the wahhabi movement drove underground by ottoman (turks: 1818, movement resuscitated in 1950. Ottoman empire defeated: khalwa - state where man and woman are alone. Turks and arabs don"t see eye to eye: turks emphasis their contributions, their understanding was/is different, muslims, official language turkish, earliest muslim group in contact with europe. Caliphate based in constantinople: caliph theoretically the leader. Turn of 19th century: badly injured by failed wars, wanted to refocus. Week 5: 1826 - instituted tanzimat reforms. Tanzimat various reforms that align the institutions with the european frameworks: education, administrative, military, legal. Official personal were brought in from europe to help wit the conversion. Two courts in turkey: european court - criminal.