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ISLAMIC POLITICAL IDENTITY IN TURKEY
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| By: |
M. Hakan Yavuz |
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Hardback |
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£145.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0195160851 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780195160857 |
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| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC |
| Pub. date: |
28 August, 2003 |
| Series: |
Religion and Global Politics |
| Pages: |
342 |
| Description: |
In this penetrating work, M. Hakan Yavuz seeks to provide a comprehensive analysis of Islamic political identity in Turkey. Yavuz argues that, since Kemal Ataturk's death in 1938 Turkey has been gradually moving away from his militant secularism and experiencing "a quiet Muslim reformation." Islamic political idenmtity is not homogenous, says Yavuz, but can be modern and progressive as well as conservative and potentially authoritarian. While the West hastraditionally seen Kemalism as an engine for reform against "reactionary" political Islam, in fact the Kemalist establishment has traditionally used the "Islamic threat" as an excuse to avoid democratization and thus hold onto power. Yavuz offers an account of the "soft coup" of 1997, in which the Kemalistmilitary-bureaucratic establishment overthrew the democratically elected coalition government, which was led by the pro-Islamic Refah party. He argues that the soft coup plunged Turkey into a renewed legitimacy crisis which can only be resolved by the liberalization of the political system. The book ends with a discussion of the most recent parliamentary election in which a party with Islamic roots swept to victory. |
| Synopsis: |
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 Islamic political identity in Turkey. He begins in the early twentieth century, when Kemal Ataturk led Turkey through a process of rapid secularization and crushed Islamic opposition to his authoritarian rule. Yavuz argues that, since Ataturk's death in 1938, however, Turkey has been gradually moving away from his militant secularism and experiencing "a quiet Muslim reformation." Islamic political i |
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1 map |
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US |
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Oxford University Press Inc |
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