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Islamic political identity in Turkey /

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 ne...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Yavuz, M. Hakan
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
Series:Religion and global politics.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.