A Just Economy? Unifying and Dividing the Islamic Intellectual Field in Neoliberal Turkey
In this paper, I argue that the relationship between religion and neoliberalism in non-Western contexts cannot be understood without paying attention to the contested, dynamic, and fluid production of local knowledge. In order to substantiate this argument, I trace debates about development, equalit...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2021
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Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Year: 2021, Volume: 89, Issue: 3, Pages: 840-862 |
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| Summary: | In this paper, I argue that the relationship between religion and neoliberalism in non-Western contexts cannot be understood without paying attention to the contested, dynamic, and fluid production of local knowledge. In order to substantiate this argument, I trace debates about development, equality, class, labor, and wealth that circulate in the Islamic intellectual field in Turkey. Specifically, I analyze the viewpoints of three contemporary Turkish Muslim intellectuals who make different claims about Islam’s economic teachings. Mustafa Özel proposes “entrepreneurial Islam” as an alternative to state-regulated capitalism, Ihsan Eliaçık argues that “social Islam” ordains Muslims to redistribute wealth, whereas Lütfi Bergen suggests that “pastoral Islam” precedes Western capitalist modernity. I find that the disputed notion of a just economy is what unifies and divides this intellectual field as a constitutive question that is disagreed upon. This article thus calls for a recognition of the contingency, multiplicity, and indeterminacy of Islamic-neoliberal assemblages. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4585 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: American Academy of Religion, Journal of the American Academy of Religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jaarel/lfab078 |