Türkiye'de İslamcılığın Değişen Siyasal Dili: 1990'larda İslamcı Dergiler

Abstract

The subject of this research is changing of Islamism’s political discourse in 1990’s. The transformation of Islamism in economics, politics, culture, everyday life is an important phenomena of political and intellectual debate in recent years. The purpose of this research is to describe, discuss and investigate the changing in the political discourse of Islamism in terms of causes and consequences. In accordance with this aim, a discourse analysis was made on the articles published in the Islamist periodical in 1990s. In the first chapter of the study it's explained the knowledge about the research. New Ottoman Thought, the ideas of Cemalettin Afgani and Muhammed Abduh and the policy of Pan - Islamism of Sultan Abdülhamit were examined in the context of the intellectual and political or igins of Islamism in the second chapter of the study. Thirdly, the Islamist movement in the Constitutional period was examined. In the fourth chapter, “Republican Period of Islamic Thought" was discussed and analyzed. "Islamism as a Project of Total Power Based on the Absolute Sovereignty of God" has been examined in the fifth chapter. In this period, Islamism is structured as a "life order" and turned into a totalitarian ideological rhetoric which has power in its center. It can be considered that Islamism acquired a collectivist and conflicting ideological identity with conceptualizations of "Islamic State", "Jihad", "Allah's Sovereignty", "Divine System" and so on. "Developments leading to the change of Islamism" are discussed in the sixth chapter. In this context, it has been found that firstly the end of the cold war period, rising postmodernist discourse, new economic and political opportunities in Turkey, translation activities in the 1990’s, “initiative" and “changing” debates in RP, the failure of Islamic projects in various countries of the World and 28 February event lead to the change of Islamic discourse in Turkey. "The New Political Language of Islamism" is debated in the seventh chapter. In this framework, the debates around the idea of "Islamic State" were analyzed and the debates that have arisen in the context of Medina Vesikas have been examined. The new Islamist discourse which is formed on the concepts of "Pluralism", "Multi-legality" and "Participation" has been evaluated. Also "New Approaches to Secularism in Islamic Discourse" and Democracy Debates in the Islamic Discourse have been discussed and analyzed. It has been found that an perceptivity of Islamism, which embraces democracy, has begun to develop in these years. The study was concluded with an assessment and conclusion section in which the main findings and conclusions were summarized.