Islamic schools in modern Turkey faith, politics, and education

In recent years, the Islamization of Turkish politics and public life has been the subject of much debate in Turkey and the West. This book makes an important contribution to those debates by focusing on a group of religious schools, known as Imam-Hatip schools, founded a year after the Turkish Repu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ozgur, Iren
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2012
Series:Cambridge Middle East studies
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Collection: Cambridge Books Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Imam-Hatip schools within a secular state
  • Accumulating and exhibiting Habitus
  • Agents of political socialization: influences in the communities
  • Imam-Hatip schools, their communities, and Islamist politics
  • Imam-Hatip schools, their communities, and Islamist civil society organizations
  • International interest and conclusions