Ataturk : : An Intellectual Biography / / M. Şükrü Hanioğlu.

When Mustafa Kemal Atatürk became the first president of Turkey in 1923, he set about transforming his country into a secular republic where nationalism sanctified by science--and by the personality cult Atatürk created around himself--would reign supreme as the new religion. This book provides the...

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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011]
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Year of Publication:2011
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures and Tables
  • A Note on Transliteration and Personal and Place Names
  • Turkish Pronunciation Guide
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Fin-de-siècle Salonica
  • 2. Das Volk in Waffen: The Formation of an Ottoman Officer
  • 3. The Scientism of the Young Turks
  • 4. From Wars to the Great War: A Hero Is Born
  • 5. Muslim Communism? The Turkish War of Independence
  • 6. The Secular Republic
  • 7. Nationalism and Kemalism
  • 8. Turkey and the West
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index