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Author Tuğal, Cihan, author.

Title Passive revolution : absorbing the Islamic challenge to capitalism / Cihan Tuğal
Published Stanford : Stanford University Press, ©2009
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 306 pages)
Contents Toward a theory of hegemonic politics -- Islamization in Turkey as constitution of hegemony -- Vicissitudes of integral political society -- The making and unmaking of integral civil society -- The emergence of modern Islamic political society -- Modern Islamic civil society triumphant -- Conclusion : Islamic hegemony in comparative perspective
Summary While Islamic politics pose a challenge to capitalism in some parts of the world, they have actually advanced capitalism and democracy in Turkey. This work looks closely at this transition in Turkey, and examines why this shift has not taken place in Egypt and Iran
Over the last decade, pious Muslims all over the world have gone through contradictory transformations. Though public attention commonly rests on the turn toward violence, this book's stories of transformation to'moderate Islam'in a previously radical district in Istanbul exemplify another experience. In a shift away from distrust of the state to partial secularization, Islamists in Turkey transitioned through a process of absorption into existing power structures. With rich descriptions of life in the district of Sultanbeyli, this unique work investigates how religious activists organized, how authorities defeated them, and how the emergent pro-state Justice and Development Party incorporated them. As Tuğal reveals, the absorption of a radical movement was not simply the foregone conclusion of an inevitable world-historical trend but an outcome of contingent struggles. With a closing comparative look at Egypt and Iran, the book situates the Turkish case in a broad historical context and discusses why Islamic politics have not been similarly integrated into secular capitalism elsewhere
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Islam and politics -- Turkey
Islamic fundamentalism -- Turkey
Islamic modernism -- Turkey
Capitalism -- Religious aspects -- Islam.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Political Advocacy.
Capitalism -- Religious aspects -- Islam
Islam and politics
Islamic fundamentalism
Islamic modernism
Islam
Politik
Turkey
Türkei
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2008046633
ISBN 9780804771177
0804771170