Associate Professor in Modern Turkey: History, Language, Culture - University of Oslo

A permanent (tenure) position of Associate Professor in Modern Turkey: History, Language, Culture is available at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo.
The holder of the position is expected to initiate and lead research related to historical, social and cultural developments in Turkey in the period after the middle of the 19th century, to supervise PhD and MA candidates, to participate in teaching, exam setting and evaluation at all levels, and to carry out administrative duties in accordance with the needs of the Department. The successful candidate will play a central role in further development of high-quality research and teaching in Middle East Studies at the Department in collaboration with colleagues, and is expected to take active part in the activities at the Department’s Centre for Islamic and Middle East Studies Center.
Requirements
•PhD or equivalent academic qualifications with a specialization in the study of Turkey or The Ottoman Empire after the middle of the 19th century
•The ability to use oral and written Turkish language sources in research and in courses taught at all levels
•Pedagogical skills and a willingness to take active part in academic leadership and administration, see How to document your pedagogical skills
•Personal suitability and motivation for the position
The following qualifications will be taken into account in the assessment of the applicants:
•Academic qualifications and academic production with a focus primarily on the study of historical, social and cultural developments in Turkey in the period after the middle of the 19th century; with an emphasis on works published within the last 5 years. Originality and innovative thinking are preferred to quantity
• Ability to contribute to the teaching of courses in Turkish language on all levels
• International peer-reviewed publications 
• Potential to contribute to the long-term development of the academic and research environment at the department
• Positive results in external fund raising
• Pedagogical qualifications and ability to inspire students
• Interest, ability and/or experience in management and administration
• Collaborative skills and willingness to initiate joint projects
• Experience with collaboration across established academic disciplines, and ability to build international networks
• Communication and public outreach skills
• Candidates with a high-level of proficiency in another Turkic language or one of the other main languages of the Middle East may be given priority
In the assessment of the qualified candidates all criteria listed above will be explicitly addressed and assessed. The quality of published academic work, development potential and breadth of intellectual/academic interest will be prioritized in this order.
Full announcement: http://uio.easycruit.com/vacancy/1513033/62042?iso=no

Yeni Kitap: 1960-1980 Arası İslamcı Dergiler - Toparlanma ve Çeşitlenme

Şubat, 2016
NOBEL Akademik Yayıncılık

Ulus devlet serüveninin çeperinde şekillenen içe kapanma dönemi¬nin düşünce dünyasında da ciddi bir sınır oluşturduğunu her ge¬çen gün daha iyi anlıyoruz. Gündemler, kavramlar ve meseleleri ele alıştaki öncelikler takip edildiğinde bu durum açıkça gözlemlene¬bilir. Bu sınırlılığı aşma işaretlerinin en somut şekilde görüldüğü dönemin, çok partili hayatın nispeten süreklileştiği 1960-1980 ara¬sı yıllar olduğunu söylemek mümkündür. Bir ölçüde, halkın farklı katmanlarının doğrudan sürece dâhil olduğu bu dönem, gerek Tür¬kiye’nin yakın tarihindeki özgül ağırlığı, gerekse de İslamcı düşünce ve yayıncılık tarihindeki yeni arayışlar, mecra tutuşlar, kurumlaş¬malar, çeşitlenmeler ve söylem farklılaşmaları bakımından günü¬müzde de canlı bir şekilde etkisini devam ettirmektedir.
Ayrıca dönemin faaliyetlerinde etkin rol üstlenmiş şahısların önemli bir kısmının hâlen hayatta bulunması bugünden yapılacak bir okumanın sınanmış bir gözle de murakabesine imkân vermek¬tedir. Bugünün Türkiyesini siyasette, bürokraside, sivil kurumlarda ve entelektüel alanda taşıyan kadroların çok önemli bir kısmının 1960-1980 döneminde yetişen kuşaklar olduğu dikkate alındığında, o yılların önemi daha iyi anlaşılacaktır. Sonuç olarak, günümüzü daha iyi anlamak için, adeta bugünün ana rahmi olan 1960-80 yıl¬larını yakından incelemenin gerekliliği oldukça açıktır. Dolayısıyla gerek tanık olduğumuz sürecin anlaşılmasına katkıda bulunması gerek yaşayan bu tarihî tanıklarla yeni kuşaklar arasında bir köprü oluşturma imkânı vermesi bu çalışmanın hem niyetini hem de kıymetini ortaya koymaktadır.

İÇİNDEKİLER

I. BÖLÜM: İSLAMCILIĞI VE İSLAMCI DERGİCİLİĞİ

YENİDEN DÜŞÜNMEK 

Türkiye’de İslamcılık Düşüncesinin Seyrini Dergiler Üzerinden Okumak - Ahmet Köroğlu

1960 Öncesi İslamî Neşriyat: Sin(diril)me, Tahayyül ve Tefekkür - Necdet Subaşı

Kenetlenmenin İmkânsızlığı: 1960-1980 Dönemi İslamcı Dergiciliğin Macerası Üzerine Bir Değerlendirme - Asım Öz

İslamcılığı Yeniden Düşünmek: Geçmişi Değerlendirmenin Ahlakı ve Geleceği Düşünmenin İmkanı

Vahdettin Işık

II. BÖLÜM: İSLAMCILIĞIN YEREL DİLİ: EDEBİYAT DERGİLERİ

1960-1980 Yılları Arasında Büyük Doğu Dergisi ve Necip Fazıl Kısakürek - Mahmut Hakkı AkıN

Antikomünist Propoganda: Büyük Doğu Mecmuası Örneği - Mustafa Oğuzhan Çolak, İbrahim Enes Aksu, Yunus Emre Tapan

Diriliş Dergisinde Tarih İlgisi ve Sonuçları - Yunus Emre Özsaray

Edebiyat Dergisi: Yerli Düşüncenin Sesi - İlhan Sadıkoğlu

Mavera: Yedi Güzel Adam’ın Dergisi - Şerife Nihal Zeybek

III. BÖLÜM: DÜŞÜNCEDE VE EYLEMDE YENİ ARAYIŞLAR

İslam Mecmuası ve İslam Âleminden Taşıdıkları: Soğuk Savaş Dünyasında Ümmeti Tahayyül Etmek

Ayşen Baylak

Hilal Dergisi ve Hilal Yayınları: Yerli Bir Neşriyat Harekâtı Olarak Çeviri Faaliyetleri - Alperen Gençosmanoğlu

Nur Talebelerinin Sesi: İhlas, Zülfikar ve Uhuvvet Gazeteleri - Ahmet Karakaya

Zülfikar Mecmuası: 1960’lardaki Nur Hareketine Dair Bir Okuma Denemesi - Alev Erkilet

İslamcı Yayıncılık Bağlamında Mücadele Birliği ve Dergileri - Mustafa Aydın

Millî Türk Talebe Birliği ve Millî Gençlik Dergisi Üzerine Bir Değerlendirme - Serkan Yorgancılar

Akıncı Güç ve Akıncılar Dergilerinde Tartışmanın Şiddeti ve Şiddetin Dili - Ertuğrul Zengin

Bir Yayıncılık Membaı Olarak Düşünce Dergisi - Mehmet Erken

Şûrâ-Tevhid-Hicret Gazeteleri ve İslami Düşüncede Radikal Tavır - Kâmil Yeşil

IV. BÖLÜM: KURUMSAL BİRİKİMİN YANSIMALARI

Mümin mi, Makbul Vatandaş mı?: Hakses Dergisindeki Cuma Hutbelerinin Analizi - Nurettin Ürün

Tohum Dergisi: Semiyolojik Bir Okuma - TuBa Aydın

İslam Medeniyeti Dergisi: İslam’ın Son Kalesinde Bir Umut - Fatih Kucur

DEVAMINI OKUMAK ICIN........

Özü-Türk:Karaylar/Karaim (Karay Türkleri) (1. ve 2. Bölüm)

Gagauzlar hem Gagauzluk (Гагаузы)

Defending the Current Academic Orthodoxy in Islamic Studies: A Response to Bruce Lawrence

Ali Mirsepassi and Tadd Fernee

Sociology of Islam, Volume 3, Issue 3-4, pages 107 – 124

ABSTRACT

Upon publishing our book, we expected colleagues to perhaps challenge us and write critical reviews.1 We wrote it with the intention of offering a critical study of the ‘new orthodoxy’ in Islamic studies, and particularly in fashionable us academic circles. However, we treated the scholars we criticized with utmost respect. We believe that our critical arguments are fair, and based on a careful reading of their works. It was sad and unexpected to read Professor Bruce Lawrence’s harshly aggressive yet complacently inattentive review of our book. Lawrence seems unhappy that our approach to Islam comes from a sociological and perhaps ‘non-believer’ perspective. His hostility, it appears, reflects personal intolerance rather than scholarly vocation. This is confirmed by the resolute refusal to analyze, even superficially, the book’s intellectual content or specific arguments. Lawrence prefers to simply smear its credibility based on innuendo and petty pretext. Without saying so directly, Lawrence employs the weight of his considerable reputation to defend the existing aca- demic orthodoxy in contemporary Islamic studies. This orthodoxy features an uncritical and idealized view of religion, combined with a highly critical atti- tude to a nebulously conceived modernity. Violence committed in the name of religion is either passed over in silence, or explained away in terms of a mis- reading of the holy sources. It is occasionally rationalized as a struggle of sub- jugated knowledge against hegemonic modernity. We now take the time to reply to Lawrence’s review of our book.2 Worse than simple disagreements (which are welcome and interesting), or errors of interpretation (which are understandable), the deliberate falsifications in Lawrence’s review raise serious issues of scholarly integrity. The tone is openly hostile, while refusing to discuss the book’s arguments even superficially. Lawrence stridently upbraids superficial and contingent details (one incoher- ence in the spelling of a name, otherwise spelled uniformly across several hun- dred pages), while ridiculing theses that never appear in the book at all. Lawrence seems especially displeased that the book does not deal primarily with Iran since ‘the authors are mostly Iranian’ (Lawrence 2015: 2). Given that there are two authors, and one is Iranian, how can they be mostly Iranian? It seems that Lawrence is either making a mathematical blunder, or an unkind insinuation concerning one of the two co-authors. Given that he writes his review as if only one author exists, it must certainly be the latter.

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http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/22131418-00303003

Book Review: “Atatürk: An Intellectual Biography” reviewed by Prof. Feroz AHMAD

CHANGING TURKEY - on July 8, 2015

Professor Şükrü Hanioğlu began his career in Istanbul University as a political scientist and wrote his doctoral thesis on the Ottoman intellectual Abdullah Cevdet. It was then published and received moderately good reviews except from the pen of Cemil Meriç, himself an intellectual and man of letters of some distinction. Writing about Hanioğlu’s thesis later published as a book, Cemil Meriç wrote: “I got no pleasure from the doctoral thesis on Abdullah Cevdet. It is an extremely ordinary and insipid book. Based on police reports it is like a bad police novel. The writer knows neither the language nor does he understand Cevdet’s language. Those who supervised his thesis were also totally ignorant….” [1]. I do hope that Cemil Meriç would have been kinder and appreciative of Hanioğlu’s later works.
Since writing his thesis, Hanioğlu’s years at Princeton University have matured him into a scholar of some repute. There he reinvented himself as a historian and shifted his attention to what is becoming a multi-volume biography of the Young Turk movement, having completed two volumes so far. The first volume published in 1995 covered the years 1889, the founding of the Committee of Union and Progress, to the Paris congress of 1902. Volume two, published in 2001, covered the years 1902 –1908 when “the Young Turks prepared for the revolution”. I expected to see the publication of the next volume, perhaps two volumes on the Young Turks revolution and the constitutional period 1908-1918. But he seems to have decided to leapfrog that decade and write the book under review [2].

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