Abstract
true leader in life is knowledge: with this sentence the founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, defined one of the principles of his reformist politics. The building of a landscape of universities was one of the political leadership's main concerns after the proclamation of the Turkish Republic in 1923. Its aim was the modernization of a country that had been dominated for centuries in all areas of society, its culture and the sciences, by Islam. Religious schooling institutions were secularized immediately, and institutes and universities after the Western European model were founded in quick succession. Art history departments, in marked difference to Western Europe, are focused on the history of Islamic Turkish art. Keywords:art history; founder of modern Turkey; Islamic Turkish art; Turkish cultural history; Western European model
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