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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" lang="sv-SE"><font
face="Bernard MT Condensed, serif"><b>Svenska Forskningsinstitutet i
Istanbul</b></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" lang="sv-SE"><font
face="Bernard MT Condensed, serif">Swedish Research Institute in
Istanbul </font> </p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font
face="Bernard MT Condensed, serif">Istiklal Caddesi No 247</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font
face="Bernard MT Condensed, serif">Beyoglu</font></p>
<p style="margin-right: 0.46cm;"><font
face="Bernard MT Condensed, serif">34 433 Istanbul</font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="center"><font
face="Bernard MT Condensed, serif"><font size="4"><b><br>
Amnesia,
remembrance and identity formation in post-Ottoman societies</b></font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="center"><em><font
face="Bernard MT Condensed, serif"><font size="6"><span
style="font-style: normal;"><b>Religious
discourse and </b></span></font></font></em>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="center"><em><font
face="Bernard MT Condensed, serif"><font size="6"><span
style="font-style: normal;"><b>ethnic
and national identities:</b></span></font></font></em></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="center"><em><font
face="Bernard MT Condensed, serif"><font size="6"><span
style="font-style: normal;"><b>Said
Nursi, the Nurcu movement and the redefinition of cultural heritage</b></span></font></font></em></p>
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<font size="5"><b>S P R I N G L E C T U R E S 2 0 1 0 </b></font>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font size="4">Tuesday </font> </p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font size="4">February 23</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font size="4">19.00</font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br>
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<p><font size="4">Camilla Nereid</font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="center"><br>
</p>
<p align="center"><font size="4"><i>In the Light of Said Nursi -
Kemalist modernization and the religious alternative</i></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font size="4">Tuesday </font> </p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font size="4">March 16</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font size="4">19.00</font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" lang="tr-TR"><br>
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<p lang="tr-TR"><font size="4">Fulya Atacan</font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="center"><br>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="center"><font size="4"><i>The
Nurcu Movement and</i></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="center"><font size="4"><i>ethnic
identity:</i></font></p>
<p align="center"><font size="4"><i>Kurdish and Turkish
nationalism</i></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font size="4">Tuesday </font> </p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font size="4">April 13</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font size="4">19.00</font></p>
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<p lang="sv-SE"><font size="4">Alparslan Açıkgenç</font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="center" lang="tr-TR"><br>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="center"><font size="4"><span
lang="tr-TR"><i>Said Nursi’</i></span></font><font size="4"><span
lang="tr-TR"><i>s Impact on the</i></span></font></p>
<p align="center" lang="tr-TR"><font size="4"><i>Renovation and
Restoration of Islamic Philosophy and Theology</i></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font size="4">Tuesday </font> </p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font size="4">May 18</font></p>
<p><font size="4">19.00</font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font size="4">Recep Şent</font><font
size="4"><span lang="sv-SE">ürk</span></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="center" lang="tr-TR"><font
size="4"><i>Recharging Nature with Meaning: Resistance of Said Nursi
to the Pozitivist Disenchantment </i></font> </p>
<p align="center" lang="tr-TR"><font size="4"><i>of the World</i></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font size="4">Tuesday</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font size="4">June 15</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font size="4">19.00</font></p>
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<p><font size="4">Şerif Mardin</font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="center"><font size="4">In
retrospect:</font></p>
<p align="center">“<font size="4"><i>Religion and Social Change
in Modern Turkey: The case of Bediuzzaman Said Nursi”(1989)</i></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font size="4"><b>Camilla Nereid </b></font><font
size="4">is
a research fellow/PhD candidate at the Norwegian University of
Science and Technology, Norway. Among her publications are:</font></p>
<p style="margin-left: 1.27cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;">“<font size="4">In
the Light of Said Nursi – Turkish nationalism and the religious
alternative,” in Bergen Studies on the Middle East and Africa, C.
Hurst & Co (Publishers), London, 1997</font></p>
<p style="margin-left: 1.27cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-left: 1.27cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font size="4">Kemalism
on the Catwalk - the Turkish hat law of 1925, </font><font size="4"><i>Journal
of Social History</i></font><font size="4"> 2011, Volume 44 (3).</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font size="4">Commentator on Turkish
events in various Norwegian news media. </font>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" lang="nb-NO"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font color="#000000"><font size="4"><b>Fulya
Atacan</b></font></font><font color="#000000"><font size="4"> is
Professor at the Department of </font></font><font color="#000000"><font
size="4">Political
Science</font></font><font color="#000000"><font size="4"> and
</font></font><font color="#000000"><font size="4">International
Relations</font></font><font color="#000000"><font size="4">, Y</font></font><font
color="#000000"><font size="4"><span lang="tr-TR">ıldız</span></font></font><font
color="#000000"><font size="4">
Technical University in </font></font><font color="#000000"><font
size="4">Istanbul</font></font><font color="#000000"><font size="4">.
She is specialized in religion and social change. Among her
publications are: </font></font>
</p>
<p style="margin-left: 1.27cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-left: 1.27cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;">“<font size="4">Explaining
Religious Politics at the Crossroad: AKP-SP” in B. Rubin, A.
Çarkoğlu</font><font size="4"><b> </b></font><font size="4">eds:
</font><font size="4"><i>Religion and Politics in Turkey</i></font><font
size="4">,
Routledge Curzon, London, 2005, s. 45-59;</font></p>
<p style="margin-left: 1.27cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-left: 1.27cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font size="4">A
Kurdish Islamist Group in Modern Turkey: Shifting Identities, </font><font
size="4"><i>Middle
Eastern Studies,</i></font><font size="4"> 2001, Vol. 37, N. 3, s.
111-144.</font></p>
<p style="margin-left: 1.27cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-left: 1.27cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;">“<font size="4">A
Portrait of a Naqshbandi Sheikh in Modern Turkey” in Elisabeth
Özdalga ed.: </font><font size="4"><i>Naqshbandis in Western and
Central Asia,</i></font><font size="4"> Swedish Research Institute,
Istanbul, Vol. 9, 1999, s. 147-157.</font></p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="justify"><font size="4"><span
lang="nb-NO"><b>Alparslan
Açıkgenç</b></span></font><font size="4"><span lang="nb-NO"> is
Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Fatih University,
Istanbul. BA. Ankara University, Theology; M.A. Ph. D. The University
of Chicago. Previously taught at the Middle East Technical
University. He is specialized in Early Islamic Philosophy and Modern
Western philosophy. His research areas are logic, philosophy of
science and epistemology (metaphyscis). Among his publications are:</span></font></p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.95cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="justify"><font
size="4"><b>Books</b></font></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.95cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="justify"><font
size="4"><i>Being
and Existence in Sadra and Heidegger: A Comparative Ontology</i></font><font
size="4">
(Kuala Lumpur: International Institute of Islamic thought and
Civilization, 1993) </font>
</p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.95cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="justify"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.95cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="justify"><font
size="4"><i>Scientific
Thought and its Burdens</i></font><font size="4"> (Istanbul: </font>
</p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.95cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="justify"><font
size="4">Fatih
University Publications, 2000)</font></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.95cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="justify"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.95cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="justify"><font
size="4"><i>Bilgi
Felsefesi</i></font><font size="4"> (Istanbul: Insan Yay</font><font
size="4"><span lang="tr-TR">ınları</span></font><font size="4">,
1992)</font></p>
<p style="text-indent: 0.95cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br>
</p>
<p style="text-indent: 0.95cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font size="4"><b>Articles</b></font></p>
<p
style="margin-left: 0.95cm; margin-right: 0.06cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"
align="justify" lang="tr-TR">
<font face="METimes, Times New Roman"><font size="4"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">Transcendent
Rationality, Ibn Rushd and Kant: A Critical Synthesis, </font><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><i>Alif</i></font><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">
16 (1996) </font></font></font>
</p>
<p
style="margin-left: 0.95cm; margin-right: 0.06cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"
align="justify" lang="tr-TR">
<br>
</p>
<p
style="margin-left: 0.95cm; margin-right: 0.06cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"
align="justify" lang="tr-TR">
<font face="METimes, Times New Roman"><font size="4"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">The
Environmental Context for the Advancement of Sciences, </font><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><i>Islamic
Studies</i></font><font face="Times New Roman, serif"> 39 (2000),
571–579</font></font></font></p>
<p
style="margin-left: 0.95cm; margin-right: 0.06cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"
align="justify" lang="tr-TR">
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</p>
<p
style="margin-left: 0.95cm; margin-right: 0.06cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"
align="justify" lang="tr-TR">
<font face="METimes, Times New Roman"><font size="4"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">The
Emergence of Scientific Tradition in Islam, </font><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><i>Kultur:
The Indonesian Journal for Muslim Cultures</i></font><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">
1 (2001), 91-114 </font></font></font>
</p>
<p
style="margin-left: 0.95cm; margin-right: 0.06cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"
align="justify" lang="tr-TR">
<font face="METimes, Times New Roman"><font size="4"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">Holistic
Approach to Scientific Traditions, </font><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><i>Islam
and Science</i></font><font face="Times New Roman, serif"> 1 (2003),
99-114</font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" lang="tr-TR"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font size="4"><b>Recep Şentürk </b></font><font
size="4">is
a professor of sociology at Fatih University, and a research fellow
at the Center for Islamic Studies (ISAM), Istanbul. He holds a Ph.D.
from Columbia University, Department of Sociology (1998), and
specializes in sociology of knowledge, human rights and Islamic
studies with a focus on the Ottoman Empire, Egypt and Turkey. He
authored in English </font><font size="4"><i>Narrative Social
Structure: Hadith Transmission Network 610-1505</i></font><font size="4">
(Standford U.P. 2005), and in Turkish </font><font size="4"><i>Sociology
of Turkish Thought: From Fiqh to Social Science </i></font><font
size="4">(Istanbul
2008) </font><font size="4"><i>Islam and Human Rights: Sociological
and
Legal Perspectives </i></font><font size="4">(Istanbul 2007) </font><font
size="4"><i>Malcolm
X: Struggle for Human Rights </i></font><font size="4">(Istanbul
2006),
</font><font size="4"><i>Social Memory: Hadith Transmission Network
610-1505 </i></font><font size="4">(Istanbul 2004), </font><font
size="4"><i>Sociologies
of Religion </i></font><font size="4">(Istanbul 2004), </font><font
size="4"><i>
Modernization and Social Science in the Muslim World: A Comparison
between Turkey and Egypt </i></font><font size="4">(Istanbul [1996]
2006). He edited </font><font size="4"><i>Ibn Khaldun: Comtemporary
Readings</i></font><font size="4"> (2009) and </font><font size="4"><i>Economic
Development and Values</i></font><font size="4"> (2009). His
forthcoming book is </font><font size="4"><i>Open Civilization:
Cultural Foundations of Pluralism </i></font><font size="4">(2010)</font><font
size="4"><i>.
</i></font><font size="4"> </font><font size="4">Şentürk</font><font
size="4">
was a visiting research fellow at Emory University Law School during
the academic year 2002-2003 as part of Islam and Human Rights
Project. He had also been invited to Great Britain as a British
Academy fellow in 2005 to conduct research and give lectures on human
rights in Islam from a legal and sociological perspective. </font>
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<font size="4">Şerif Mardin</font><font size="4"><span style="">
got his Ph. D. from Stanford University in 1958. He has held
positions as professor in Faculty of Political Science, Ankara
University, Department of Political Science, Bogazici University. He
has also held positions as visiting professor in Princeton
University, Harvard University, University of California, Los
Angeles, and Berkeley, Oxford University, Ecoles des Hautes Etudes en
Sciences Sociales (Paris), and American University (also as tenured
professor). He is presently professor at Sabanci University. </span></font>
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<font size="4"><span style="">Professor Mardin is a
prolific writer in English as well as Turkish. Among his many
noteworthy publications are:</span></font></h4>
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<font color="#0000ff"><a
href="http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbninquiry.asp?ISBN=0815628617"
target="_blank"><font color="#000000"><font size="4"><i><span
style="text-decoration: none;"><b>The
Genesis of Young Ottoman Thought</b></span></i></font></font></a></font><font
size="4"><span style="">,
Princeton: Princeton University Press, (1962) </span></font>
</h4>
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lang="en-GB"> </h4>
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lang="en-GB">
<font size="4"><span style="">Center Periphery
Relation: a Key to Turkish Politics? </span></font><em><font size="4"><b>Daedalus</b></font></em><font
size="4"><span style="">,
Winter 1972</span></font></h4>
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lang="en-GB">
</h4>
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lang="en-GB">
<font color="#0000ff"><a
href="http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbninquiry.asp?ISBN=0887069967"
target="_blank"><font color="#000000"><font size="4"><i><span
style="text-decoration: none;"><b>Religion
and Social Change in Modern Turkey</b></span></i></font></font></a></font><em><font
size="4"><b>.
The Case of Bediuzzaman Nursi</b></font></em><font size="4"><span
style="">,
Albany & New York: SUNY Press, 1989</span></font></h4>
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lang="en-GB">
</h4>
<h4 class="western" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"
lang="en-GB">
“<font size="4"><span style="">The Nakşibendi
Order in Turkish History”, in R. Tapper ed.: </span></font><em><font
size="4"><b>Islam
in Modern Turkey</b></font></em><font size="4"><span style="">,
London: I. B. Tauris, 1991</span></font></h4>
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