Islamic Schools in Modern Turkey: Faith, Politics, and Education

by Iren Ozgur

Book Overview

In recent years, the Islamization of Turkish politics and public life has been the subject of much debate in Turkey and the West. This book makes an important contribution to those debates by focusing on a group of religious schools, known as Imam-Hatip schools, founded a year after the Turkish Republic, in 1924. At the outset, the main purpose of Imam-Hatip schools was to train religious functionaries. However, in the ensuing years, the curriculum,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107529794
• ISBN13: 9781107529793
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"