Celal Nuri: Young Turk Modernizer and Muslim Nationalist

The Turkish journalist and intellectual Celal Nuri Ileri's unique blend of advocacy for modernity and westernization with Turkish nationalism and Muslim reformism set him apart from his fellow “Young Turk” thinkers, politicians and publicists, all of whom sought to halt the decay of the Ottoman Empire in its competition with the European powers.
Although a supporter of the national resistance movement after World War I, his core beliefs about the need for a continued role for Islam in socie...