The mobilization of political Islam in Turkey

The Mobilization of Political Islam in Turkey explains why political Islam, which has been part of Turkish politics since the 1970s but on the rise only since the 1990s, has now achieved governing power. Drawing on social movement theory, the book focuses on the dominant form of Islamist activism in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Eligür, Banu
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2010
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Collection: Cambridge Books Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • - Emergence of the Islamist social movement in Turkey
  • - The Turkish-Islamic synthesis and the Islamist social movement
  • - The malfunctioning state and consolidation of the Islamist social movement
  • - Organization dynamics of the Islamist social movement
  • - The soft intervention of 1997 and the Islamist social movement
  • - The Islamist social movement today and prospects for the future