Neo-Pan-Islamism in Turkey: foreign policy discourse of Turkey’s Islamist thinkers and parties (1970s-1990s)

Abstract

Concepts and typologies for a research on Turkish Islamist Parties and their foreign policy ambitions. A brief history of Turkish Islamism: main thinkers and organizations. The political role of the Naqshbandi Sufi order from the Ottoman Empire to the Republican Era. International affairs discourse of key Islamist authors in Republican Turkey. The Islamist discourse on foreign affairs in Turkey’s Islamist magazines. Elements of neo-Pan-Islamist foreign policy discourse in the NOM’s political parties (1970s-1990s).Concepts and typologies for a research on Turkish Islamist Parties and their foreign policy ambitions. A brief history of Turkish Islamism: main thinkers and organizations. The political role of the Naqshbandi Sufi order from the Ottoman Empire to the Republican Era. International affairs discourse of key Islamist authors in Republican Turkey. The Islamist discourse on foreign affairs in Turkey’s Islamist magazines. Elements of neo-Pan-Islamist foreign policy discourse in the NOM’s political parties (1970s-1990s).LUISS PhD Thesi