Islamist Mobilization in Turkey
Subtitle: A Study in Vernacular Politics (Studies in Modernity and National Identity)
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: February 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780295982915
Subjects: Ethnography; Islamic studies; History - General History; Religion; Turkey; Middle East - Turkey; Political Process - Political Parties; Islam - General; Middle East - General; Political Process - Elections
First sentence: In November 1997, people in living rooms and offices all over Turkey were hotly debating the seemingly inexorable progress of the Constitutional Court toward a decision to shut down Turkey's most prominent and successful Islam-based political party, the Welfare Party.