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Between Islam and the state : the politics of engagement / Berna Turam.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Turam, Berna.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Islam and politics--Turkey.
- Islam and politics.
- Islam and state--Turkey.
- Islam and state.
- Nationalism--Turkey.
- Nationalism.
- Democracy--Turkey.
- Democracy.
- Turkey--Politics and government--1980-.
- Turkey.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (235 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Throughout the Middle East, the clash between Islamic forces and authoritarian states has undermined many democratization efforts. But in Turkey, Islamic actors—from the Gülen movement to the pro-Islamist Justice and Development Party—have been able to negotiate the terms of secular liberal democracy. This book explores the socio-political conditions and cultural venues in which Islamic movements cease to confront and start to cooperate with secular states. Though both the Gülen and JP have ambivalent attitudes toward individual freedoms and various aspects of civil society, their continuing engagements with the state have encouraged democracy in Turkey. As they contest issues of education and morality but cooperate in ethnic and gender politics, they redraw the boundaries between public sites and private lives. Showing opportunities for engagement between Islam and the state, from Turkey to Kazakhstan to the United States, Between Islam and the State illustrates a successful means of negotiating between religion and politics.
- Contents:
- The politics of engagement : first encounters with the non-defiant
- From fences that divide to boundaries that link the state and Islam
- Contestations over education
- The apeal of cooperation : national affinities and international undertakings
- Compromising women's agency : bonds between Islamic and secular actors
- The AKP institutionalizes the engagement : "marriage of convenience" between the state and Islam?
- Conclusion : reflections on democratization in the Middle East : the ambiguities of promoting the "Turkish model" for democracy.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-216) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8047-6821-8
- 1-4356-0894-1
- OCLC:
- 290565547
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