Turkish Language Reform: A Step in the Modernization of Islam in Turkey.
This thesis represents an attempt to understand the present direction of Turkish Society in terms of its various linguistic and literary reforms. Using a historical approach, we have first determined the role of language in the earlier Islamic-oriented, Ottoman society. After treating the political,...
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McGill University
1954
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| Summary: | This thesis represents an attempt to understand the present direction of Turkish Society in terms of its various linguistic and literary reforms. Using a historical approach, we have first determined the role of language in the earlier Islamic-oriented, Ottoman society. After treating the political, economic and intellectual crises of the declining Empire in some detail, we are able to see the lines of the twentieth century intellectual and political developments slowly unfold under the tutelage of the Western-oriented, Turkish leaders. [...] |
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