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Between Islam and the State: The Politics of Engagement

Between Islam and the State: The Politics of Engagement


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Throughout the Middle East, the clash between Islamic forces and authoritarian states has undermined many democratization efforts. But in Turkey, Islamic actors--from the Gulen movement to the pro-Islamist Justice and Development Party--have been able to negotiate the terms of secular liberal democracy. This book explores the socio-political conditions and cultural venues in which Islamic movements cease to confront and start to cooperate with secular states.
Though both the Gulen and JP have ambivalent attitudes toward individual freedoms and various aspects of civil society, their continuing engagements with the state have encouraged democracy in Turkey. As they contest issues of education and morality but cooperate in ethnic and gender politics, they redraw the boundaries between public sites and private lives. Showing opportunities for engagement between Islam and the state, from Turkey to Kazakhstan to the United States, "Between Islam and the State" illustrates a successful means of negotiating between religion and politics.


About the Author :
Berna Turam is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Middle East Studies at Hampshire College.

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""Between Islam and the State" is a very good book that has a timely question and intriguing cases. The Turkish experience is full of lessons for those who are interested in Islam-state relations in other Muslim countries. This book, therefore, is a candidate to become a must-read for the students of Middle Eastern politics in particular and of religion and politics in general."--"Comparative Political Studies"
"Turam's study provides valuable insights into the mental framework of large sections of Turkish society."--Lutz Berger, "National Identities"
"Berna Turam's study of Islam and democracy in Turkey also advances debates about Islamist moderation. She tackles a crucial case study--Turkey's mainstream Islamists--because Turkey would seem to be a case of "exclusion" leading to moderation . . . [Turam] emphasizes everyday interactions, rather than a focus on the inclusion of Islamists into electoral politics or the formal political system . . . Turam draws attention to a whole political context and not merely to a sequence of mechanisms that affect the behaviors and/or ideologies of discrete Islamist groups and individuals."--Jillian Schwedler, "World Politics" "Turam's book is an excellent counterintuitive account of Turkish politics in the last ten years . . . Turam shows how a non-confrontational politics have allowed the Turkish secular state and the Islam-inspired Gulen movement and the Justice and Development Party (known by its Turkish acronym AKP) to interact, reshape each other, and expand democratic institutions."--"Contemporary Sociology"
"Turam's essay is an important contribution to the Islam-state interface in Turkey. Not only does it refute the received wisdom concerning that relationship, which has long attributed less than valid motives to both the Islamic actors and the secularists in Turkey, but it also to a great extent explains the evolving dynamics behind that interface . . . This essay deserves to be a must-read for students of the Islam-state relationship both in Turkey and elsewhere."--"Turkish Studies"


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  • ISBN-13: 9781435608948
  • Publisher: Stanford University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Stanford University Press
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: The Politics of Engagement
  • ISBN-10: 1435608941
  • Publisher Date: 14 May 2014
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 241


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