Table of Contents Introduction Chapter 1: The Politics of Engagement Chapter 2: From Fences that Divide to Boundaries that Link the State and Islam Chapter 3: Contestations Over Education Chapter 4: The Allure of Cooperation: National Affinities and Shared International Undertakings Chapter 5: Compromising Women's Agency: Bonds between Islamic and Secular Actors Chapter 6: The AKP Institutionalizes the Engagement: "Marriage of Convenience" between the State and Islam? Chapter 7: Conclusion: Reflections on Democratization in the Middle East NOTES INDEX
Berna Turam is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Middle East Studies at Hampshire College.
"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 "Berna Turam's book is one of the best to have been published recently on the interaction between Islam and the secular state in Turkey ... Her study stands as an excellent analysis of what one might call 'Turkish exceptionalism.' As such, it is must reading of anyone who wishes to understand contemporary Turkey and the implications of the Turkish experience for other Muslim-majority countries." - The Middle East Journal "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 "Turam's richly researched book ... makes an extremely important contribution to understanding the relationship between the state and Islamic political actors. Rich detail shows political Islam as a complex and contradictory phenomenon. Islamic political actors engage with various aspects of modern life on an ongoing basis and the outcome of this engagement is not necessarily conflict and confrontation. Perhaps an even more significant observation to emerge from this book is that the representation of Islamic actors in public discourse can encourage engagement and foster social and political pluralization in the public sphere." - Canadian Journal of Sociology "The book is a fine contribution to the scholarship on the negotiation of secularism." - CHOICEx
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