Overview

As the Ottoman Empire crumbled, the Middle East and Balkans became the site of contestation and cooperation between the traditional forces of religion and the emergent machine of the sovereign state. Yet such strategic interaction rarely yielded a decisive victory for either the secular state or for religion. By tracing how state-builders engaged religious institutions, elites, and attachments, this book problematizes the divergent religion-state power configurations that have developed. There are two central arguments. First, states carved out more sovereign space in places like Greece and Turkey, where religious elites were integral to early centralizing reform processes. Second, region-wide structural constraints on the types of linkages that states were able to build with religion have generated long-term repercussions. Fatefully, both state policies that seek to facilitate equality through the recognition of religious difference and state policies that seek to eradicate such difference have contributed to failures of liberal democratic consolidation.

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Author:   Kristin Fabbe (Harvard Business School, Massachusetts)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 22.70cm
Weight:   0.460kg
ISBN:  

9781108409452

ISBN 10:   1108409458
Pages:   310
Publication Date:   28 March 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock  
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction: religion and the quest for state soverignty; 2. Creating disciples of the state; 3. The Ottoman imperial footprint and international context; 4. The first reformer: Egypt under Muḥammad ʿAlī; 5. Synthesizing the religious and the national in a revolutionary and irredentist Greece; 6. The religious roots of the 'secular' state: understanding Turkey's sacred-synthesis of the religious and the national; 7. How the religious and the national diverge: evidence from Egypt; 8. Sacred-synthesis, the politics of exclusion, and the prospects of liberal democracy; 9. Conclusions.

Reviews

'Kristin Fabbe has written a highly engaging study of the historical relationship between religion and state-building in the Middle East and Balkans … Fabbe's study should appeal to historians and political and other social scientists interested in state-building, secularization, and nationalism.' Mark Biondich, Journal of Church and State

'Kristin Fabbe has written a highly engaging study of the historical relationship between religion and state-building in the Middle East and Balkans ... Fabbe's study should appeal to historians and political and other social scientists interested in state-building, secularization, and nationalism.' Mark Biondich, Journal of Church and State

Author Information

Kristin Fabbe is an assistant professor in the Business, Government, and International Economy Unit at Harvard Business School. Dr Fabbe is also faculty affiliate at the Middle East Initiative at the John F. Kennedy School of Government's Belfer Center, the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, and the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program.

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