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Journal of Islamic Studies Advance Access originally published online on June 29, 2009
Journal of Islamic Studies 2009 20(3):352-375; doi:10.1093/jis/etp023
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Islam and Post-Modernism: Locating the Rise of Islamism in Turkey

Anwar Alam

Centre for West Asian Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia


  Abstract

This paper reflects on the rise of Islamism in Turkey. In doing so, it does not emphasize electoral strategies within the competitive multi-party system, or charismatic leadership or the existence of Islamic factions within the Republican and Democratic Party, in order to explain the political ascendancy of Islamist parties—whether NOP, NSP, Welfare, Virtue, Felicity, or AKP. It is also not about the rise of a particular Islamic political formation in Turkey. Instead it tries to situate the rise of Islamism as an alternative discourse against the background of the crisis of Kemalism. It examines the processes and factors that helped Islamists to take centre stage in Turkish politics and society, and argues that these need to be understood in combination with post-modernist features of Islamic movements, particularly in the context of Turkey. The paper also tries to explain why and how Islam, not other existing secular ideologies, emerged as a master signifier in the context of the crisis of Kemalism.


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