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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2003.
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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 9780195347708 0195347706 1423756819 9781423756811 9786610503223 6610503222 9780195160857 0195160851 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 328 pages) : map |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-324) and index. |
| Series: | Religion and global politics.
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