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Disciples of the state? : religion and state-building in the former Ottoman world /

As the Ottoman Empire crumbled, the Middle East and Balkans became the site of contestation and cooperation between the traditional forces of religion and the emergent machine of the sovereign state. Yet such strategic interaction rarely yielded a decisive victory for either the secular state or for...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fabbe, Kristin (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Subjects:
Religion and state > Egypt.
Nation-building > Egypt.
Religion and state > Greece.
Nation-building > Greece.
Religion and state > Turkey.
Nation-building > Turkey.
Nation-building.
Religion and state.
Egypt.
Greece.
Turkey.
Table of Contents:
  • List of Figures, p.viii
  • List of Tables, p.ix
  • Preface, p.xi
  • Acknowledgments, p.xv
  • Transliteration of Modern Greek, p.xvii
  • Pronunciation of Turkish Transliteration of Modern Turkish, Gttoman Turkish and Arabic, p.xxi
  • I Introduction: Religion and the Quest for State Sovereignty, p.1
  • Is State-Building Secularization?, p.3
  • Religion-State Power Arrangements, p.5
  • Divergent Post-Ottoman Trajectories, p.7
  • Book Plan, p.12
  • 2 Creating Disciples of the State, p.15
  • Critical Domains: Education and Law, p.16
  • Key Actors: Modernizing Reformers and Religious Elites, p.17
  • State Expansion Strategies, p.18
  • Institutional Redeployment, p.19
  • Institutional Layering, p.20
  • Piecemeal Co-optation, p.20
  • ParaIlel Systems, p.21
  • Usurpation, p.21
  • Religious Elites, Institutions and Attachments, p.22
  • European Colonialism, Religious Heterogeneity, Expertise, p.25
  • Resources and European Colonial Practices, p.26
  • Religious Heterogeneity, p.29
  • Micro Mechanisms: Understanding the Religious Response, p.31
  • 3 The Ottoman Imperial Footprint and the International Context, p.35
  • Ottoman Governance and the Millet System, p.36
  • The Sunni Religious Establishment, p.39
  • The Autonomous Confessional Communities, p.43
  • Religion and Everyday Life, p.45
  • International Context: European Models, Ottoman Realities, p.46
  • Conclusions, p.50
  • 4 The First Reformer: Egypt under Muharnmad 'Ali, p.52
  • Muhammad 'Alt's Piecemeal Co-optation of the Ulema, p.53
  • Shifting Course with Strategies of Redeployment, p.55
  • 5 Synthesizing the Religious and the National in a Revolutionary and Irredentist Greece, p.59
  • Greek Reformers and the Orthodox Religious Establishment, p.62
  • Revalutian, Provisional Governments and Continued Religious Co-optation, p.65
  • Kapodistrias's Greece, p.71
  • The Regency Period: Schism and Nationalization, p.73
  • Irredentism, Ecclesiastical Reunification and State Expansion: Co-optation beyand State Borders, p.77
  • The Patriarchate in "Captiuity", p.79
  • 6 The Religious Roots of the "Secular" State: Understanding Turkey's Sacred Synthesis of the Religious and the National, p.83
  • The Late Ottoman Legal and Educational Landscape, p.84
  • Sultan 'Abdulhamıd II under Threat and the Rise of the Young Turks, p.89
  • The Late Ottoman Religious Elite: Identity, Motives and Preferences, p.92
  • Building a Sacred Synthesis: Courting the Masses and the Religious Elite, p.94
  • The Absence of a Unified Religious Front, p.97
  • A Widening Divide: The Religious Establishment and the Religious Elite 31 March Incident, p.100
  • Reform by Co-optation Continues: Coercion, Compromise and Cooperation, p.103
  • Understanding Incentives: Embedding Religious Elites in the New "State-Centric" System, p.107
  • Schooling: Religious Elites Continue as the Pillar of a New "Secular" System, p.108
  • Courts: Religious Elites Deliver State] ustice (and Religious J ustice too), p.114
  • Institutionalizing the Religious Bureaucrat, p.118
  • Repression and Indoctrination af ter the Birth of the Republic, p.123
  • Conclusion, p.125
  • 7 How the Religious and the National Diverge: Evidence from Egypt, p.128
  • Reform by Parallel Systems: A Displaced Religious Elite and the Emergence of Lnstitutional Bifurcation, p.130
  • Education: "Manufacturing Demagogues", p.131
  • Legal Reform and the Shrinking J urisdiction of the Sharia Courts, p.137
  • Kemalism in Egypt?, p.140
  • Counterarguments, p.146
  • 8 Sacred Syntheses, the Politics of Exdusion and the Prospects of Liberal Democracy, p.149
  • Sacred Syntheses Confront Diversity, p.151
  • The Religious Politics of Forced Migration, p.152
  • The ChamAlbanians: From Friend to Muslim Foe, p.157
  • Religion and Resetdement: Diluting Slavic Exarchate Influence in Macedonia, p.159
  • Religious Classification and Economic Discrimination in Turkey, p.161
  • Turkey's Alevis and Kurds, p.163
  • Dilemmas of Religious Pluralism and Politics in Conternporary Greece, p.165
  • Dilemmas of Religious Pluralism and Politics in Contemporary Turkey, p.169
  • The Travails of Turkey's Official Islam, p.173
  • A Space for Civil Rights and Liberal Democraey?, p.181
  • 9 Conclusions, p.185
  • Insights, p.189
  • Revisionist History, p.189
  • State Formation, p.191
  • Secularization, p.192
  • Parhs of Change, p.193
  • Nationalism, p.194
  • Moderate Societies Buttressed against Both Extremism and Collapse, p.194
  • Postscript: Sacred Synthesis Undone in Turkey?, p.196
  • Notes, p.203
  • Bibliography, p.247
  • Index, p.283