This volume gathers the articles presented at the Reset DOC Istanbul Seminars 2013, which took place at the Istanbul Bilgi University from May 16 to May 22, 2013. The 2013 Istanbul Seminars addressed the topic of “The Sources of Political Legitimacy. From the Erosion of the Nation-State to the Rise of Political Islam”.
Philosophy & Social Criticism: Istanbul Seminars (vol 40 no 4-5 2014)
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
Seyla Benhabib, The new legitimation crises of Arab states and Turkey
Alessandro Ferrara, Massimo Rosati (1969–2014): In Memoriam
Massimo Rosati, The archaic and us: Ritual, myth, the sacred and modernity
Political Legitimacy and the Arab Spring
Lisa Anderson, ‘Creative destruction’: States, identities and legitimacy in the Arab world
Hamadi Redissi, The decline of political Islam’s legitimacy: The Tunisian case
Amel Grami, The debate on religion, law and gender in post-revolution Tunisia
Amr Hamzawy, On religion, politics and democratic legitimacy in Egypt, January 2011–June 2013
Harun Karcic, Shariah after the Arab Spring?
Michael Walzer, After the Arab Spring
Political Legitimacy Across the East-West Divide
Faisal Devji, Politics after Al-Qaeda
Nader Hashemi, Rethinking religion and political legitimacy across the Islam–West divide
Jonathan Laurence, The 21st-century impact of European Muslim minorities on ‘Official Islam’ in the Muslim-majority world
Meyda Yeğenoğlu, Sovereignty renounced: Autoimmunizing and democratizing Europe
Turkey’s Legitimation Crisis
Karen Barkey, Political legitimacy and Islam in the Ottoman Empire: Lessons learned
Murat Borovali and Cemil Boyraz, Turkish secularism and Islam: A difficult dialogue with the Alevis
İlay Romain Örs, Genie in the bottle: Gezi Park, Taksim Square, and the realignment of democracy and space in Turkey