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 Free Download Sinan Yildirmaz, "Politics and the Peasantry in Post-War Turkey: Social History, Culture and Modernization " English | ISBN: 1780761139 | 2016 | 304 pages | EPUB | 1290 KB When the Ottoman Empire collapsed following the First World War, the feudal system which had survived untouched in much of Anatolia began to change. Kemal Ataturk's task of building a nation 'from the people up' meant that the peasantry, by far Turkey's largest ethnographic group, became an important symbol of social cohesion. Here, Sinan Yildirmaz analyses the history of modern Turkey through the material culture of this peasantry - their speeches, social club documents, art and diaries - and reveals a rich social and political life which flowered after the Second World War. 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Majid Mohammadi charts the central concepts and nuances of the ideological map of post-revolutionary Iran, and examines the rise and development of Shi'i Islamism. He recognizes that the Islamic Republic of Iran and Iranian political discourse are the outcome of contesting perspectives and ideologies: identity-oriented, socialist, nationalist, authoritarian, Shari'a, scripturalist, mystical, militarist and fascist. This is a comprehensive, comparative contribution to one of today's most important topics: that of the relationship between Political Islam and the West.  Free Download Evangelia Axiarlis, "Political Islam and the Secular State in Turkey: Democracy, Reform and the Justice and Development Party " English | ISBN: 1780769237 | 2014 | 304 pages | PDF | 2 MB How safe is Turkey's liberal democracy? The rise to power in 2002 of the right-leaning Islamic Justice and Development Party ignited fears in the West that Turkey could no longer be relied upon to provide a buffer against the growth of Islamic fundamentalism in the Middle East. Once hailed by the West as a model of secularism and moderation in the Muslim world, Turkey is now seen to be under the influence of the 'creeping Islamisation' of the JDP (or AKP as it is known in Turkey). Yet to what extent has this affected the lives of Turkish citizens? Evangelia Axiarlis here explores the contribution of the JDP to civil liberties and basic freedoms, long suppressed by secular and statist Kemalist ideology, and how this has remained unexamined despite more than a decade in government. 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Free Download Playing Dead: Short Stories by Members of the Detection Club edited by Martin Edwards English | March 4, 2025 | ISBN: 1448312965 | True EPUB | 288 pages | 1.9 MB Members of the Detection Club, the most prestigious group of crime writers in the world, celebrate the eightieth birthday of their former president - the original king of cozy crime, Simon Brett - with this stunning collection of all-new short stories. |
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