192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
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Over the last decade the once marginal extreme right of the Turkish ideological spectrum has grown in size as well as in influence and has effectively reshaped party competition in Turkey. Policy mandates and electoral bases of the rising extreme right rely on potentially explosive social cleavages in the country. One such confrontation is between the secularist and pro-Islamist forces, which has... Read more
1. Introduction Barry Rubin 2. Locating the Ottoman Alevis (Kizilbas) Hülya Canbakal 3. Religious Dimension in Mahmut 2nd's Reforms Hakan Erdem 4. Religion in Late Ottoman Education Akin Somel 5. Economic Modernization and Secularization in the Late Ottoman Empire Timur Kuran 6. Institutional and Other Memories in Contemporary Turkish Islam Erif Mardin 7. Recep Tayyip Erdogan: From Mayor To Prime Minister Metin Heper 8. The Political Economy of Islam and Democracy: The prospects For democratic consolidation Ziya Öni 9. Religion, Transnationalism and Turks in Europe Gamze Avci 10. The Mystery of the Turban Issue in Turkish Politics Ersin Kalaycglu 11. Alevis in Turkey David Shankland 12. Political Preferences of the Turkish Electorate: Reflections of an Alevi-Sunni cleavage Ali Çarkoglu 13. Is an Islamic Democracy Viable in the Turkish Context? Murat Çizakça 14. Muslim and Christian Democrats: A comparative assessment William Hale 15. Explaining Religious Politics at the Crossroads: AKP and SP Fulya Atacan 16. Conclusion Ali Çarkoglu
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Rubin, Barry; Çarkoglu, Ali
