Islam in Modern Turkey

Investigates the social and political forces that have shaped Islamic practices in Turkey, from 1923 to now Covers a different topic in each chapter: the Kemalist revolution, Sunni Islam, the Alevi minority, Sufi communities, political parties, religious education, and the contemporary periodExplores issues that have shaped public debates about the role of religion in the Turkish secular state in case studies on, for example, veiling; the use of Atatürk imagery, and the liberalisation of the med