This book provides a survey of Islam in Turkey since the founding
of the modern republic in 1923. It examines the secularising
policies of Turkey's founders and how these policies have shaped
the development of religious institutions and social expectations
around religious practice up to the present day. A special emphasis
is on the relationship between religion and politics, with chapters
focusing on state-based religious institutions, religious
education, Sufi orders and religious communities, Alevism,
Islamic-oriented political parties, and the effects of economic
liberalization on the practice of Islam in Turkey. Readers will
also learn about the political and social developments that
contributed to the rise of the current Islamist government of the
Justice and Development Party. In this way, Islam in Turkey
provides vital historical context for understanding both the rise
of the controversial President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and current
events in Turkey and the Middle East more broadly.
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