Islam, globalisation, history, identity, multi-culturalism, tradition, war
Turkey is different from other Islamic societies, because Turkey is a laicist country. Political Islam has developed in a Republican environment and changed in the last years.
Günter Seufert, a scholar of Islam from Istanbul, will chair a discussion, which will focus on the question, how the Islamic discourse copes with experiences of modernity. This discourse includes and discusses a specific awareness with respect of everyday life, and thus helps major strata of the society develop new forms of acting and attitudes in a process of societal transformation, to find religious foundations and legitimise change on the basis of morals and ethics. Political Islam, thus, becomes modern Republicanism, an Islamic counter-proposal with respect to Kemal’s Republic.
Author: Haus der Kulturen der Welt
Moderation:
Günter Seufert, Scholar of Islam, Istanbul
Discussants:
Yasin Aktay, Professor of Sociology, Selcuk University, Konya
Nuray Mert, Sociologist and Publisher, Istanbul
Questioning from Germany: Zafer Senocak, Writer and Essayist, Berlin
