The International in Turkish Islamist Thought

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2024-1

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Yıldız, Tunahan

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This thesis examines the Turkish Islamist conceptions of the international. It questions in what ways Islamists in Turkey interpret the international reality, and what they offer to achieve a more desirable international order. The analysis is part of an effort to bridge the gap that has existed between the Eurocentric study of international relations and its diverging conceptions and practices in different parts of the world, culminated in the literature on the non-Western conceptions of the international and the recent agenda of Global International Relations. The thesis relies on a qualitative analysis of Islamist journals, published in Turkey from the 1940s to the 2010s. It reveals that the Turkish Islamist explanations of the international have oscillated between their theories of realism, imperialism, civilization in the singular, and civilizations in the plural. It also demonstrates that the Turkish Islamist prescription of international change revolves mainly around the notion of Pan-Islamism. The central premise of the thesis is that while Turkish Islamists do not constitute a monolithic school of international thought, they propose a diverse set of power-oriented and synthetic conceptions of the international, eclectically combining the Western modernity and what can be considered as the Islamic authenticity.

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Turkish Islamism, non-Western IR, Global IR, civilizationism, imperialism

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/108201

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis