The Mobilization of Political Islam in Turkey (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781107617728)

The Mobilization of Political Islam in Turkey explains why political Islam, which has been part of Turkish politics since the 1970s but on the rise only since the 1990s, has now achieved governing power. Drawing on social movement theory, the book focuses on the dominant form of Islamist activism in Turkey by analyzing the increasing electoral strength of four successive Islamist political parties: the Welfare Party; its successor, the Virtue Party; and the successors of the Virtue Party: the Felicity Party and the Justice and Development Party. This book, which is based on extensive primary and secondary sources as well as in-depth interviews, provides the most comprehensive analysis currently available of the Islamist political mobilization in Turkey.

Author: Banu Eligür
ISBN-10: 1107617723
ISBN-13: 9781107617728
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/02/2014
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.14lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.75d