Secularism in Turkey as a Nationalist Search for Vernacular Islam

This article analyzes one of the reforms of the Kemalist state which imposed the recitation of the Turkish translation of the call to prayer and banned its original Arabic version between 1932 and 1950. This reform reflected the nationalist urge to create an Islam unaffected by the Arabic language a...

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Main Author: Umut Azak
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Université de Provence 2008-11-01
Series:Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée
Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/remmm/6025
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