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dc.contributor.authorPalabıyık, Mustafa Serdar-
dc.date.accessioned2023-04-16T10:01:15Z-
dc.date.available2023-04-16T10:01:15Z-
dc.date.issued2023-
dc.identifier.issn2146-7757-
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11851/10347-
dc.description.abstractSince the first translation of the concept of civilization into Turkish as medeniyet in 1837 by Sadik Rifat Pasha, the then Ottoman Ambassador to Vienna, this coinage has turned out to be an essential component of Turkish modernization. This paper aims to establish a genealogy of the concept of medeniyet to demonstrate the divergences of Ottoman perceptions in different periods throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It argues that civilization was first perceived by a group of Ottoman intellectuals as a tool to reach an ideal state of being (c. 1840-1860). The next generation of Ottoman intellectuals (c. 1860-1890) defined civilization as the ideal state of being, yet they had different views on the concept, particularly concerning the distinction between material and moral elements of civilization. Finally, the third generation of Ottoman intellectuals (c. 1890-1920), whose thoughts were more or less crystallized under three broad political currents labeled as Westernism, Islamism, and Turkism, had different and sometimes contradicting perceptions of civilization based on their political outlooks. By referring to the writings of these intellectuals, the paper will discuss central debates on civilization in the late Ottoman Empire, such as the singularity/plurality of civilization(s), the existence of Islamic civilization as an alternative to European civilization, the degree of importing from European civilization, and the distinction between culture and civilization. Moreover, it argues that the Turkish perception of medeniyet is different from the European perception of civilization ; in other words, while the Ottoman perception of the concept of civilization is not homeborn, it is homegrown. Accordingly, Ottoman intellectuals not only divided the material and moral elements of civilization and opted for importing the former, but they also questioned the singularity and supremacy of European civilization by referring to Islamic civilization either as an extinct yet once-present form of civilization or as a potential rival to European civilization.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherCenter Foreign Policy & Peace Researchen_US
dc.relation.ispartofAll Azimuth-A Journal of Foreign Policy and Peaceen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessen_US
dc.subjectOttoman Empireen_US
dc.subjectcivilizationen_US
dc.subjectmodernizationen_US
dc.subjectmedeniyeten_US
dc.subjectEuropeen_US
dc.titleA Genealogy of the Concept of Civilization (medeniyet) in Ottoman Political Thought: A Homegrown Perception?en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.departmentTOBB ETÜen_US
dc.identifier.volume12en_US
dc.identifier.issue1en_US
dc.identifier.startpage129en_US
dc.identifier.endpage146en_US
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000929790600007en_US
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85147808937en_US
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dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.identifier.TRDizin1268060en_US
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ1-
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item.languageiso639-1en-
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crisitem.author.dept04.04. Department of Political Science and International Relations-
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