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Moral Crisis in the Ottoman Empire: Society, Politics, and Gender during WWI By Çiğdem Oğuz by Lisa M Todd is a Social Sciences article available to read on EtoBox.
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In 1914, a madrasa teacher wrote a letter to the Ministry of Interior Affairs demanding the state prohibit all acts 'incompatible with Islam' including the operation of taverns and coffeehouses, the sale of alcohol, gambling, and 'those things causing or encouraging adultery'. Further, the teacher insisted, the state should oblige women to 'behave with perfect manners' while in public and ban any women's clothing they deemed incompatible with 'Islamic principles' (p. 101). Other letter writers insisted the government would do better to regulate private lives because wartime losses, natural disasters, and poor harvests were all terrible results of immoral actions by the wartime population. At the same time, the Ottoman home-front faced unique challenges-continuing ramifications from recent war experiences in the Balkans, restricted access to global resources, and the violent threat of the CUP's ambitions to 'redesign' the demographic makeup of the Empire (p. 11). This complicated interweaving of morality discourses, Islamic principles, and the societal demands of 'total war' form a central part of C ̧ig ̆dem Og ̆uz's new book, one of a growing number of works to study alleged mora
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- Author
- Lisa M Todd
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2023
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Social Sciences