Mustafa Kemal Ataturk with Turkish army 1921 - in last year of the "Turkish War for Independence"

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, teaching the new Turkish "non-Islamic" alphabet, 1929

Class Presentation:
    The foundations for "secularism" and "nationalism" in the Middle East and Islamic world : the case of Republican Turkey.

Reading Assignments:
    Charles D. Smith.  " Secularism " in Esposito (ed). The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World .  pp. 20-30.