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Provides an english reader with samples of the writings of Ziya Gokalp, a Turkish thinker, regarding Turkish nationalism and its meaning in terms of Islam and Western Civilization.

Turkish Nationalism and Western Civilization (1959) presents Ziya Gökalp’s synthesis of nationalism, Islam and Western civilization in a developmental and systematic way. More than as a sociologist, poet, man of public affairs, or ideological slogan-maker, Ziya Gökalp (1876–1924) deserves the attention of social practitioners and scientists for his insight into the problems of accommodating non-Western cultures and Western civilization progressively and creatively.

The Principles of Turkism is a sociological work of Ziya Gokalp, which he obtained from his scientific and international researches and studies. It is a comprehensive book about who the Turkish nation is, where it came from and where it should go. In this work, in which he describes the foundations of Turkish nationalism, Gökalp conveys his ideals, which he calls Turkism in the close-up and Turanism in the far-field, to the reader in the finest details. The author's sociological, cultural and political evaluations on Turkish society and culture still offer a lot to the reader today.

Selected essays arranged by chronological sequence and topical interrelationship.