In search of secular tradition: Attempts to invent secular law tradition for the Turkish nation-state by Köprülü, Barkan and Inalcik Seküler Geleneǧin Izinde: Köprülü, Barkan ve Inalcik'in Türk Ulus-Devleti Için Laik Kanun Geleneǧi Oluşturma Çabalari

Coşkuner M.

Amme Idaresi Dergisi, vol.53, no.2, pp.53-73, 2020 (SSCI) identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Review
  • Volume: 53 Issue: 2
  • Publication Date: 2020
  • Journal Name: Amme Idaresi Dergisi
  • Journal Indexes: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus, Business Source Elite, Business Source Premier, Central & Eastern European Academic Source (CEEAS), TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
  • Page Numbers: pp.53-73
  • Kocaeli University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

© 2020 TURKIYE ORTADOGU AMME IDARES IENSTITUSU. All rights reserved.Ethno-history narrative which is designed in accordance with political and social needs rather than historical facts, is also seen in Turkish historiography. The allegation which is secular public law is separate from Islamic law in Turkish states, led by Fuad Köprülü and continued by his students Ömer Lütfi Barkan and Halil Inalcik, is expressed as a sample of this ethno-history attitude. According to this ethno-history thesis, which aims to provide the historical legitimacy to the new Turkish nation-state based on a secular political system, there has been a secular-political custom law in the Turkish states without the influence of religious law. Even if this paradigm based on Durkheimian theory of social division of labour by Köprülü, in fact, it was created by ignoring the most important assumption of this theoretical perspective. The study will argue the fact that Köprülü, Barkan and Inalcik made this possible by making an artificial distinction between the spheres of religion and politics in Turkish history.