About:
Religion and secularity in Turkey are complex and intertwined topics that have a long and turbulent history. Turkey is officially a secular country with no official religion since the constitutional amendment in 1928. This was later strengthened and entrenched with wider appliance of laicism (or laiklik in Turkish) by founder Atatürk during the mid-1930s. The separation of state and religion requires the state to profess “active neutrality”, which involves state control and legal regulation of religion. Turkey’s secularism was historically established in order to modernise the nation and to avoid a social and cultural life dominated by orthodoxy. However, the severe and restrictive
approach of the state also produced a powerful backlash from religious people and movements that felt marginalised and oppressed by the secular elite. The rise of political Islam in Turkey, especially since the 1980s, has challenged the secular status quo and demanded more recognition and freedom for religious expression and identity
Guidelines:
1. The length of the submitted paper should be 2000 words (excluding abstract and footnotes), but not exceeding 2500 in any event.
Manuscripts should be in Microsoft Word format, and they should be double-spaced.
2. Submitted papers must examine specific legal, social, cultural, economic, religious, and political developments in Turkey which are
relatively recent, clarifying the change and linking it with principles of Islamic law. Papers may also outline comparisons between the new
developments with other legal and political systems and international sources. Merely descriptive papers presenting the content of recent
developments will not be accepted.
3. An abstract of no more than 250 words should be included with all submissions along with 3 to 5 keywords.
4. Contributions must be original and not previously published elsewhere.
5. Submissions must comply with the standards and rules of MJTILP, including research ethics, style, and citation.
6. The MJTILP follows the OSCOLA 4th edn referencing style mainly, as adopted with slight modifications suited to the specific citation requirements of the MJTILP. Please see the MJTILP Author Guidelines for further information on formatting the referencing style.
7. Contributions must be written in a scholarly style and academic English. Proofreading may be required by the Journal’s editors if a
paper is otherwise acceptable.
Submission and Deadline:
All contributions corresponding to the Call for Papers for a Special Section on “Recent Developments in Turkey” should be submitted to the Guest Editor for this special section Dr Emine Enise Yakar, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan University, via email: [email protected].
The final review of all contributions will be conducted by the Editor-in-Chief Dr Ahmad Ali Ghouri, who can be contacted for general enquiries on our Recent Developments section via email: [email protected].
This Special will be published in our March 2024 Issue. All contribution should be submitted to Dr Emine Enise Yakar latest by 31 January 2024. Submissions well in advance of the deadline are encouraged.
Journal Website: Manchester Journal of Transnational Islamic Law &
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