| ID | 174158 |
| Title Proper | Intellectual struggles of Kurdish ulema in a post-colonial world |
| Other Title Information | the case of Mullah Ali Zile |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Gurbuz-Kucuksari, Gulsum |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Modern Kurdish thought encompasses many factions with diverse social, political, religious and ideological positions in and outside of Turkey.1 While our knowledge about the evolutions of the nationalist thought among Kurdish secular intellectuals has radically increased, the intellectual heritage of Kurdish religious intellectuals, the ulema, who have been searching for the best ways of delivering their societies from internal and external exploitations, have been mostly overlooked in Western academia. This article aims to bring to light the intellectual wrestling of a Kurdish mullah, Ali Zile of Diyarbakır, with the problems he believed Kurds faced from many angles: sheikhs, the passive madrasa tradition, the Kurdish secular/Marxist nationalism from the inside, and the Turkish nationalism and the Western imperialism from the outside. |
| `In' analytical Note | Middle Eastern Studies Vol. 56, No.3; May 2020: p.359-380 |
| Journal Source | Middle Eastern Studies Vol: 56 No 3 |
| Key Words | Nationalism ; Kemalism ; Kurdish ; Anti-Imperialism ; Ulema |