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Refah Party and the City Administration of Istanbul: Liberal Islam, Localism and Hybridity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 July 2015

Alev İnan Çınar
Alev İnan Çınar*
Affiliation:
Department of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania
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As Islam becomes an increasingly salient element of political life in various countries around the world, there is a growing need to make sense of the new forms and meanings Islam assumes in its various manifestations. It is obvious by now that complex mechanisms surrounding the politics of Islam cannot be adequately understood by the employment of such broad and overgeneralizing categories as “reactionism”, “fundamentalism” or “conservatism.” Political Islam, far from being a unified social movement with a coherent political aim, is a fragmented, multi-faceted phenomenon which cannot, therefore, be adequately understood through singular categories.

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New Perspectives on Turkey , Volume 16 , Spring 1997 , pp. 23 - 40
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Copyright © New Perspectives on Turkey 1997

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