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Ahmet T. Kuru

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Prof. of Political Science; Author of "Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment"; webpage: ahmetkuru.sdsu.edu

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İran rejiminin dini ve tarihi temeli ne? Dini Lider kim? Ulema-devlet ittifakından farkı var mı?
Türkçesi bu hafta çıkan kitabım "İslam, Otoriterlik ve Geri Kalmışlık" (@ayrintiyayinlari.bsky.social) üzerinden açıkladım.
@yeniarayis.com yazım: www.yeniarayis.com/yazi/iranda-...

10.03.2026 23:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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İslam, Otoriterlik ve Geri Kalmışlık 7 yıl sonra nihayet Türkçe yayımlandı.
@ayrintiyayinlari.bsky.social’a ve titiz çevirisi için @akifkoc.bsky.social’a teşekkürler.
Metni kelime kelime gözden geçirerek güncelledim. Yeni Önsöz ve Sonsöz ile huzurlarınızda:
www.ayrintiyayingrubu.com/kitap/islam-...

06.03.2026 06:25 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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📝 2025'TE EN ÇOK OKUNAN YAZILARIMIZDAN 2️⃣. SIRA:

Türkiye’nin post-Cemaat sorunu

✍️ Ahmet T. Kuru yazdı.

Okumak için ➡️ yeniarayis.com/yazi/...

01.01.2026 10:40 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Happy 2026! My new year gift came from India: my book's Urdu translation. Thanks to Khusro Foundation, who also translated it into Hindi last year. This foulard is from 2025 Delhi Book Fair, where I had launched the Hindi edition.
goodreads.com/book/show/24...

31.12.2025 16:06 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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News! France's Académie des sciences d’outre-mer (f. in 1922)
@asomparis.bsky.social awarded its 2025 Prix Louis Marin on social sciences to my book's French trans., Islam, autoritarisme et sous-développement
Award ceremony youtube.com/watch?v=9vlb...
Book review academieoutremer.fr/presentation...

21.12.2025 04:31 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Tarık Çelenk ile Sağduyu | Ahmet Kuru anlatıyor: Ulema – devlet ilişkileri çerçevesinde İslam medeniyeti krizi Prof. Dr. Ahmet Kuru, İslam dünyasının yüzyıllardır süren “geri kalmışlık” krizini değerlendirdi.

Tarık Çelenk ile Sağduyu | Ahmet Kuru anlatıyor: Ulema - devlet ilişkileri çerçevesinde İslam medeniyeti krizi

22.10.2025 16:00 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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I spent an inspiring week in Morocco:
1.Presented on Islam & liberalism at Mont Pelerin Society meeting in Marrakech on 10/9 (panel led by @timurkuran.bsky.social & w Tarek Masoud)
mps2025.org
2.Kutubiyya Mosque (1158)
3.Also visited Fes w Jeremy Gunn
4.Al-Attarine Madrasa (1325)

14.10.2025 16:33 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thanks. The alliance between populist, religious & nationalist forces is the main challenge to secularism today.

13.09.2025 17:18 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Crucial to keep state, religion apart in plural societies, says scholar Ahmet T Kuru says that failing to disentangle these domains can lead to systemic dysfunction.

My Free Malaysia Today interview on religion-state separation in written & as a video summary: www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nat...

19.08.2025 02:55 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

My article is part of a review symposium on @tariqmodood.bsky.social & T. Sealy's book "The New Governance of Religious Diversity" ( @politybooks.bsky.social) in Ethnicities journal.
Read the full symposium: journals.sagepub.com/page/etn/rev...

08.08.2025 18:16 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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My new Ethnicities article: What type of secularism may govern religious diversity better in Syria & other cases? Why is the principle of separation crucial in the US & elsewhere? How did Protestant countries develop despite their clergy-state alliances?
researchgate.net/publication/...

08.08.2025 18:12 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
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My @jodemocracy.bsky.social article on Turkey's ideological past & possible future;
-Ataturk, Erdogan, secularists, Gulenists
-How international structure affects agency in Turkish politics?
-Can İmamoğlu restore Ataturk's legacy—in his own vision?
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

02.07.2025 20:09 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Genç siyaset: Mamdani, ABD ve Türkiye Hem ABD hem de Türkiye’de siyaset, yaşlılar tarafından domine edilmiş durumda ve gençler bu durumdan giderek daha fazla rahatsızlık duyuyor.

Mamdani'nin New York seçim zaferinin ABD ve Türkiye için anlamını @yeniarayis.com'a yazdım.
Erdoğan, Kılıçdaroğlu, Bahçeli ve Öcalan 70 yaşın üzerinde.
ABD ve Türkiye'de siyasetteki tıkanmayı gençler aşabilir:
yeniarayis.com/yazi/genc-si...

27.06.2025 03:56 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Dr. Michael Bonner & I had the absolute pleasure of interviewing Dr. Ahmet T. Kuru professor of political science & director of Center for Islamic & Arabic Studies at @SDSU for an illuminating conversation about his scholarship. @ahmetkuru.bsky.social

18.05.2025 07:21 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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We talked extensively about @ahmetkuru.bsky.social 's 2019 book, Islam Authoritarianism & Underdevelopment (with many translation recently German Hindi & its ban in Malaysia) on the impediment of ulema state alliance to separation of church & state + its Sasanian roots. @cambridgeup.bsky.social

18.05.2025 07:25 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Liberalizm, faşizmi ve sosyalizmi yendikten sonra, kendi küresel krizini nasıl doğurdu?
İslam neden rakip bir ideoloji değil? Batı'dan, Müslüman ülkelere, liberalizmin düşüşü ve popülizmin yükselişini @yeniarayis.com için yazdım:
yeniarayis.com/yazi/batidan...

13.05.2025 06:00 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Moeed Pirzada with Prof. Ahmet Kuru of San Diego Univ: Rise & Fall of Muslim Mind & Power?
Moeed Pirzada with Prof. Ahmet Kuru of San Diego Univ: Rise & Fall of Muslim Mind & Power? YouTube video by Iconoclasts with Moeed Pirzada

My interview with Pakistani intellectual & journalist
@moeedpirzada.bsky.social
We discussed the Muslim world from history to present:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1db...

18.04.2025 16:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Thanks to Free Malaysia Today for its article on Malaysian Islamic Council's ban on my books & how my publishers Lestari Hikmah & IRF resisted:
www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nat...
Its video summary:

16.04.2025 16:07 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Islam and the State Best books on Islam and the state chosen by political scientist, Ahmet T. Kuru. Everything covered from earliest Islamic era to 21st century.

This is longer, English version of my analysis of books on Islam and the state (by @fivebooks.com): fivebooks.com/best-books/i...

06.04.2025 15:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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تعرض مقالتي في @aljazeera.net.web.brid.gy أربعة كتب أساسية لفهم تاريخ الإسلام السياسي، من أطروحة عبد الرازق في فصل الدين عن الدولة، إلى تحليل ابن خلدون الاجتماعي، مروراً برؤية هودجسون التاريخية،
وصولاً إلى كتابي الإسلام والسلطوية والتأخر:
aja.ws/9xdk4n

05.04.2025 14:27 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
InIIS InSIGHTS: "Islam, Authoritarianism and Underdevelopment" with Ahmet Kuru
InIIS InSIGHTS: "Islam, Authoritarianism and Underdevelopment" with Ahmet Kuru YouTube video by InIIS

In this InSIGHTs episode, we have Ahmet Kuru (@ahmetkuru.bsky.social) as guest to speak about the international journey of his "Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment" (2019, Cambridge UP), about secularism and democracy debates in Muslim countries, etc.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=quT3...

03.04.2025 08:17 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Ahmet Kuru BBC News: Imamoglu & Protests in Turkey
Ahmet Kuru BBC News: Imamoglu & Protests in Turkey YouTube video by Ahmet T. Kuru

What explains Turkey's political turmoil? Erdogan's dilemma between authoritarian power & economic crisis?
I discussed in a live interview with @bbcworldservice.bsky.social. Full video youtu.be/egll6c-wt4k

28.03.2025 07:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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"Trump appears to hold unchecked power for now — but three key factors could threaten his grip."
My op-ed on Trump and the new world disorder in Pakistan's leading Eng. newspaper Dawn:
dawn.com/news/1899650...

27.03.2025 02:49 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Excellent analysis. Professor Ahmet Kuru is one of the world’s foremost experts on Islam & authoritarianism.

His observations about Imamoglu’s widening the CHP tent to include women w/ headscarves—& the positive impact that Turkey could have on the Muslim world if it ever re-democratises—are key.

26.03.2025 05:23 👍 16 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
Turkish president’s rival formally charged with corruption | ABC NEWS
Turkish president’s rival formally charged with corruption | ABC NEWS YouTube video by ABC News (Australia)

What explains the mass political protests in Turkey? Who is Imamoglu, and why is he important? I gave a 5-minute live interview on Australia's ABC News Breakfast @abcnewsbot.bsky.social
Full video youtube.com/watch?v=Z-b6...

Written abc.net.au/news/2025-03...

26.03.2025 04:53 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 2