How did Muslim intellectuals of the Second Constitutional Period (II. Meşrutiyet, 1908–1918) seek to understand, redefine, and reposition both the self and the other at a moment when the Ottoman world faced military encirclement, political tutelage, and a rapidly changing intellectual order?
In this monograph, Vahdettin Işık argues that the central tension of the period was a search for istiqāmah—the “Straight Path.” The concepts examined in the book map the different paths taken by Muslim ...