"The Eternal Enemy of Islam": Abdullah Cevdet and the Baha'i Religion
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2005
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Journal Article
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Late Ottoman Empire: History of Ideas; Baha'i Studies
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History
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English
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PUB ID:
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103-403-795
(Last edited on
2009/03/04 13:34:59 US/Mountain)
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ABSTRACT:
This paper discusses Abdullah Cevdet, one of the founding members of the Young Turk ‘Committee of Union and Progress’ who in 1922 aroused considerable public commotion with a favourable article on the Baha’i Religion that he had published in his journal 'Ictihad'. He was prosecuted for attacking Islam and the prophet Muhammad by expressing his thoughts in favour of the Baha’i-Religion, recommending it as a world religion to replace Islam that he deemed backward. It is argued here in the context of Cevdet’s Weltanschauung that he did not use ‘Baha’ism’ merely as a tool to educate the Muslims in line with his Positivist ideas but that he identified himself with this new religious creed.
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