Authoritarianism, Informal Law, and Legal Hybridity - The Islamisation of the State in Turkey (1st ed. 2022)

This book investigates Turkey’s departure from a ‘flawed democracy’ under Kemalist secularism, and its transitioning into Islamist authoritarian Erdoğanism, through the lenses of informal law, legal pluralism, and legal hybridity. In doing so, it examines the attempts of Turkey’s ruling party (AKP) at social engineering and gradual Islamisation of the Turkish state and society, by using informal Islamist laws. To that end, the book argues that the AKP has paved the way for Islamist legal hybridity where society, state, and law, are being gradually Islamised on an ad hoc basis. Informal law and legal pluralism in Turkey have had a non-state characteristic which have permitted Muslims to solve disputes by seeking the opinions of religio-legal scholars. Yet under the AKP rule, this informal legal system has become increasingly dominated by conservatives, sometimes radical Islamists, which the governing party has taken advantage of by either formalizing some parts of the informal Islamist law, or using it informally to mobilize its supporters against the opposition.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	Singapore
Release date:	April 2023
First published:	2022
Authors:	Ihsan Yilmaz
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Pages:	258
Edition:	1st ed. 2022
ISBN-13:	978-981-19-0278-9
Categories:	Books
LSN:	981-19-0278-X
Barcode:	9789811902789

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