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Zusatztext 'By using a sound empirical data from the Ottoman World War I years, this book, I believe, is a great contribution to understand how and why times of competing visions of morality and increasing discourse on moral crisis reflect the state of a society in crisis, decay, turmoil and transformation.' Informationen zum Autor Çigdem Oguz is a research fellow at the University of Bologna, Department of History and Cultures. Previously, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Naples Federico II, Department of Humanities. She has received her PhD degree in 2018 from Bogaziçi University’s Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History and Leiden University’s LIAS Turkish Studies Program. Vorwort A social, intellectual and political history of the crisis of morality in the Ottoman Empire during World War I Zusammenfassung To what extent did a perceived morality crisis play a role in the dramatic events of the last years of the Ottoman Empire? Beginning in the late nineteenth century when some of the Ottoman elites began to question the moral climate as evidence for the losses facing the empire, this book shows that during the course of World War I many social, economic, and political problems were translated into a discourse of moral decline, ultimately making morality a contested space between rival ideologies, identities, and intellectual currents. Examining the primary journals and printed sources that represented the various constituencies of the period, it fills important gaps in the scholarship of the Ottoman experience of World War I and the origins of Islamism and secularism in Turkey, and is essential reading for social and intellectual historians of the late Ottoman Empire. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Introduction2 Intellectual contests over morality,and interpretations of “moral crisis”: secular morality vs. religious morality3 Public morals, prostitution, and cultural perceptions 4 Morality between discourse and daily realities5 The family at the center of moral decline: legislation targeting the regeneration and protection of Ottoman Muslim families6 Conclusion: the legacy of morality debates today Bibliography...
