Book contents
- Contesting Pluralism(s)
- Contesting Pluralism(s)
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Spelling
- By Way of Introduction
- Part I Theory
- Part II History
- Part III Twenty-First Century
- 5 EU-niversalism, the Islamo-Liberal Moment, and Ethno-Nationalist Backlash
- 6 Neo-Ottomanism
- 7 Turkey Turns
- 8 Turkish-Islamist Synthesis 2.0 and the New Pluralizers
- Conclusion
- Index
5 - EU-niversalism, the Islamo-Liberal Moment, and Ethno-Nationalist Backlash
from Part III - Twenty-First Century
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 December 2024
- Contesting Pluralism(s)
- Contesting Pluralism(s)
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Spelling
- By Way of Introduction
- Part I Theory
- Part II History
- Part III Twenty-First Century
- 5 EU-niversalism, the Islamo-Liberal Moment, and Ethno-Nationalist Backlash
- 6 Neo-Ottomanism
- 7 Turkey Turns
- 8 Turkish-Islamist Synthesis 2.0 and the New Pluralizers
- Conclusion
- Index
Summary
This chapter launches the contemporary section of the book. The overarching argument is that despite the binaries leveraged by leaders and analysts alike, political contestation in the twenty-first century, as in the nineteenth and twentieth, is not reducible to an “Islamist vs. secularist” cleavage. Instead, contestation and key outcomes are driven by shifting coalitions for and against pluralism, notably, an Islamo-liberal/secular liberal coalition that marked the sixth major, pluralizing alignment since the Tanzimat reforms. It would transform state and society, even though the coalition itself proved short-lived as democratization stalled against a backdrop of debates over Islamophobia, the headscarf, minority rights, freedom of expression, media freedoms, and sweeping show trials.
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- Contesting Pluralism(s)Islamism, Liberalism, and Nationalism in Turkey and Beyond, pp. 141 - 178Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025