Between Islam and the State: The Politics of Engagement

Year 2007, Issue: 18, 145 - 149, 01.07.2007

Burhanettin Duran

https://izlik.org/JA32YG23YF

Abstract

The relationship between Islam and the state in Turkey has been the subject of a great interest among the students of Turkish politics and Islam. A new study, based on a multi-sited ethnography by Berna Turam of Hampshire College, provides a valuable contribution to the understanding of the transformation of Islam(ism) in Turkey. As Turam points out in the introduction, the book is the story of “a rising agreement, cooperation and a growing sense of belonging between the secular state and Islamic actors”. This agreement emanates from the shifting dynamics between Islamic ways of life and the conduct of the state.

Keywords

Islam , state , engagement

References

• Turam, Berna, Between Islam and the State: The Politics of Engagement, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007.