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ISBN: | 9780195347708 0195347706 1423756819 9781423756811 9786610503223 6610503222 9780195160857 0195160851 0195160851
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-324) and index. Print version record.
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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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Other form: | Print version: Yavuz, M. Hakan. Islamic political identity in Turkey. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003 0195160851
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