Islamic political identity in Turkey /

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Author / Creator:Yavuz, M. Hakan.
Imprint:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
Description:1 online resource (xiv, 328 pages) : map
Language:English
Series:Religion and global politics
Religion and global politics.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11142344
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ISBN:9780195347708
0195347706
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9781423756811
9786610503223
6610503222
9780195160857
0195160851
0195160851
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-324) and index.
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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.
Other form:Print version: Yavuz, M. Hakan. Islamic political identity in Turkey. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003 0195160851