The International in Turkish Islamist Thought

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2022-01-01

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Yıldız, Tunahan
Çıtak Aytürk, Zana Ayşe

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This study examines Islamist understanding of change in the international system by inquiring into the conception of the international in Turkish Islamist tradition. It relies on a discourse analysis of Islamist journals’ entire corpus in Turkey from the 1940s to the 2010s. Its founding premise is that the Islamist prescription of change in the international system revolves around the notion of Pan-Islamism. This study first builds on an examination of the five ideological grounds of Pan-Islamism: dogmatic, historical, conjunctural, pragmatic/practical, and emancipatory. It further discusses the embodiment of Pan-Islamism at its two ends: pluralist/thin and monist/thick visions of Pan-Islamism. The analysis brings forth four main findings: First, notwithstanding its persistent claims to authenticity, the Pan-Islamist proposal is a synthetic conception of the international, combining authentic concepts, e.g. the umma, with such conventional concepts as balance of power, understood primarily in terms of alliances and blocs. Second, it does not purport to a significant questioning of the ordering principles of international relations, notably sovereignty and territoriality. Third, the Pan-Islamist proposal is, for the most part, power- and hegemony-oriented, amid its overinflated normative baggage and self-proclaimed anti-imperialism. Fourth, it mainly offers a change in the international rather than a change of the international, therefore discrediting any emancipatory potential it has claimed.

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Pan-Islamism, Turkish Islamism, non-Western conceptions of the international, PAN-ISLAMISM, AL-QAEDA, TURKEY, IR, SOVEREIGNTY, CHALLENGE, DISCOVERY, DISCOURSE, WRITINGS, SOCIETY, non-Western conceptions of the international, Pan-Islamism, Turkish Islamism

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/101757

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Millennium: Journal of International Studies

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https://doi.org/10.1177/03058298221122882

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Department of International Relations, Article

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T. Yıldız and Z. A. Çıtak Aytürk, “The International in Turkish Islamist Thought,” Millennium: Journal of International Studies, pp. 0–0, 2022, Accessed: 00, 2023. [Online]. Available: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=85142249007&origin=inward.