Young Ideas

Extensively documented and updated since its first publication in 1962, this volume provides a detailed study of the men and events that have shaped Turkey's modern political ideologies. Contemporary documents, letters, and newspapers are quoted extensively.

Serif Mardin recently retired from the School of International Service at The American University. He has been a fellow at St. Anthony’s College at Oxford as well as a visiting professor at Columbia, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris), Princeton University, the University of California at Berkeley, and UCLA. He is the author of Religion and Social Change in Modern Turkey and the editor of Cultural Transition in the Middle East.