Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: On Politics Chapter 3: The Nationalities Question Chapter 4: Islam, Science and Modernity Chapter 5: Women, Family, and Society Chapter 6: Turkish Language Reform Chapter 7: Conclusion

Promotional Information

The first English language monograph on Young Turk intellectual and Muslim reformist Celal Nuri

About the Author

York Norman is Associate Professor of Eastern European and Middle Eastern History, State University of New York, Buffalo State, USA. He is the co-editor of Transformations of Populism in Europe and the Americas: History and Recent Tendencies (Bloomsbury, 2015), and the author of Islamization in Bosnia: Sarajevo’s Conversion and Economic Development, 1461-1604 (2017).

Reviews

Celal Nuri: Young Turk Modernizer and Muslim Nationalist is a product of meticulous research and a thought-provoking book. It is a must-read for anyone interested in the intellectual and political history of the late Ottoman and early Turkish republican periods.
*Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association*

Norman’s richly researched book provides significant insights into twentieth-century Turkish history. As one of only a handful of works written in English on late Ottoman and republican Turkish intellectuals, it is a noteworthy contribution to the field.
*Turkish Studies*

"York Norman’s authoritative intellectual biography of Celal Nuri, gives us an engaging and critical history of the competing visions of modernity during the transition from Ottoman Empire to Turkish Republic. Kemalist narratives of history claimed a natural and inevitable continuity from late Ottoman crisis of Empire to the modern Republican reforms and Turkish nationhood. Norman’s masterful account of a prolific and influential figure of this transition, Celal Nuri, demonstrates the existence and legacies of alternative projects of Westernization, nationalism and Muslim modernity among the Turkish speaking elites."
*Cemil Aydin, Professor of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA*

"In this well-researched and nuanced assessment of Celal Nuri, York Norman draws a masterful portrait of one of the most original and prolific intellectuals of the late Ottoman Empire and early Republican Turkey, all the while offering fresh and incisive insights into the times and circumstances that shaped him."
*Yigit Akin, Associate Professor, The Ohio State University, USA*