Islamic social movements -- The enduring Ottoman legacy -- The tempering of the Kemalist Revolution: the emergence of multiparty politics -- The political economy of Islamic discourse -- The role of literacy and the media in the Islamic movement -- The matrix of Turkish Islamic movements: the Nakşibendi Sufi order -- Print-based Islamic discourse: the Nur movement -- The Neo-Nur movement and Fethullah Gülen -- The national outlook movement and the rise of the Refah party -- The securitization of Islam and the triumph of the AKP
Summary
In November of 2002, the Justice and Development Party swept to victory in the Turkish parliamentary elections. Because of the party's Islamic roots, its electoral triumph has sparked a host of questions both in Turkey and in the West: Does the party harbor a secret Islamist agenda? Will the new government seek to overturn nearly a century of secularization stemming from Kemal Ataturk's early-twentieth-century reforms? Most fundamentally, is Islam compatible with democracy? In this penetrating work, M. Hakan Yavuz seeks to answer these questions, and to provide a comprehensive analysis of Isla
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-324) and index
