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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Islam and the Nation -- Chapter 3. The Republic of Fear -- Chapter 4. The Missionary and the Headscarf -- Chapter 5. No Mixing -- Chapter 6. Sex and the Nation: Veiled Identity -- Chapter 7. Choice and Community: The Girl with Blue Hair -- Chapter 8. Conclusion -- Afterword to the new paperback edition -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Backmatter

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Political Economy of Culture -- 2. Religion and Politics in the Everyday -- 3. The Institutional Expression of Islam -- 4. Generation X and the Virtue Party -- 5. Populism: Democracy Is Peace of Mind -- 6. Civil Society: In Whose Service? -- 7. Islamist Elitism and Women's Choices -- 8. Secular Activism in Ümraniye -- Conclusion -- Postscript -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Turkey has leapt to international prominence as an economic and political powerhouse under its elected Muslim government, and is looked on by many as a model for other Muslim countries in the wake of the Arab Spring. In this book, Jenny White reveals how Turkish national identity and the meanings of Islam and secularism have undergone radical changes in today's Turkey, and asks whether the Turkish model should be viewed as a success story or a cautionary tale. This provocative book traces how Muslim nationalists blur the line between the secular and the Islamic, supporting globalization and p

"To illuminate the local culture of Istanbul, White has interviewed residents, activists, party officials, and municipal administrators and participated in their activities. She draws on rich experiences and research made possible by years of firsthand observation in the streets and homes of Umraniye, a large neighborhood that grew in tandem with Turkey's modernization in the late twentieth century. This book will appeal to anthropologists, sociologists, historians, and analysts of Islamic and Middle Eastern politics."--Jacket

This book serves two important functions. First, it gives a comprehensive overview of the
many varieties of Islamic practice and organization in contemporary Turkey and sets these into
the larger national context. Second, the author shares important insights into the manner in which
the culture of the political process leads inevitably to certain kinds of accommodation with
religion. The survey of Turkey's religious brotherhoods, associations, and political parties,
while brief, is comprehensive without being superficial. Enough history, ideology, organization,
and telling details are given for each to come alive in the larger context of Turkey's
complex intersection of culture and political history. The book comes alive in the description of
the Alevi, a religious minority that has been the subject of the author's own research for
many years. There also is a particularly interesting discussion of the presentation of Islam in
children's schoolbooks and the relationship of Islamic values to moral behavior and love for
the nation. Although this is not new material, it is set within a larger discussion.

Between Marriage and the Market: Intimate Politics and Survival in Cairo. Homa Hoodfar. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. 302 pp.

The Turkish community in Germany is fractured along ethnic, class, religious, and generational lines, although the practice of reciprocity provides stability and continuity in ethnic identification. Turks are also categorized by German discourses, which shifted after reunification, incorporating Turks into an anxiety‐laden east‐west problematic. Turkish responses to antiforeigner violence reflect ethnicity both as category and as practice: withdrawal behind communal boundaries or creation of a transnational creole ethnic self around the practice of reciprocity.

Examines implications of the Dec. 1995 election of Welfare, Turkey's first self-declared Islamic political party, and its leader, Necmettin Erbakan, for its continuation as a pro-Western, secular democratic state.

The state of civil society in urban Turkey is discussed in reference to the potential coexistence of civil society & Islam. Although Western-style civil society, based on individualism & contractual relationship, is rarely found in Turkey, civic activities are often performed through voluntary associations & grassroots protests. This form of civil society, grounded in mutual trust, reciprocity, & interpersonal obligation, allows all citizens to freely choose alliances & shape their personal identities through mutual cooperation. Although critics have argued that civil society is not compatible with Islam, this distinctly Turkish form of civil society predated recent Islamic political succeses & has survived & even flourished during Islamic political rule. However, the continued vitality of civil society in Turkey demands a political structure that allows diversity & plurality, & it is concluded that politics, rather than Islam, should be the focus of future debates regarding civil society in the Middle East. 26 References. T. Sevier