Religion et champ éditorial dans la Turquie républicaine

Abstract

Through the “editorial trajectory” of Ömer Rıza Doğrul (1893-1952), the aim is to revisit the question of the expression of Islamic religious sensibilities in republican Turkey, from 1923 until the beginning of the 1950s. The editorial trajectory of this committed Muslim intellectual and journalist, author of a commentary/translation of the Quran, published in Latin characters as early as 1934 - a trajectory defined both by the works published and by the publishers by whom they appeared – is not limited to a production on Islam by Islamist publishers. It also includes other works, including novels, essays and self-help books (often, but not always, translated from English or Arabic). Their analysis and the consideration of publishing houses show that the expression of a religious (modernist) sensibility has been restrained in a variable way according to the periods, and that it has itself managed to metamorphose into other forms such as the novel, but also self-help, thanks to publishing houses of different sensibilities (Islamist, generalist, spiritualist, or even politically totally opposed).

Keywords

• Islam
• Republican Turkey
• publishing
• Ömer Rıza Doğrul
• self-help