Turkey, the melting Pot of the West and East: an evaluation of the benefits of Western and Eastern civilizations for this adaptive nation

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Turkey, the melting Pot of the West and East: an evaluation of the benefits of Western and Eastern civilizations for this adaptive nation

This paper is about the historical absorption of quality culture from Islam and secular ways. Turkey is located in a very strategic position between east and west. In the Ottoman empire time it was able to absorb the quality culture to split Islam but when the empire declines it is able to absorb t...

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Main Author:	Abdullah @ Chuah Hock Leng, Osman
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	IJASSH 2013
Subjects:	BP173 Islamic sociology HM Sociology HM435 History of sociology. History of sociological theory. School of sociology
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/35329/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/35329/1/turkey_melting_pot.pdf

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