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Islamic Reformation?
Feb. 26th, 2008 04:35 pmThis could be very big indeed.
One concern that I have, that's not mentioned in the article, is that this is being carried out under the auspices of the Turkish government. Turkey has been militantly secularist since the time of Atatürk, and I don't know what effect that will have on the reception of this work. Also, from what I understand, Turkey is not popular among Arabs - they still remember the Ottoman occupation - or among Iranians - the Ottoman and Persian empires were rivals, often belligerent ones, for centuries.
Still, it will be interesting to see what comes of this.
One concern that I have, that's not mentioned in the article, is that this is being carried out under the auspices of the Turkish government. Turkey has been militantly secularist since the time of Atatürk, and I don't know what effect that will have on the reception of this work. Also, from what I understand, Turkey is not popular among Arabs - they still remember the Ottoman occupation - or among Iranians - the Ottoman and Persian empires were rivals, often belligerent ones, for centuries.
Still, it will be interesting to see what comes of this.
