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I intend to analyze the process through which Islam is being incorporated into the political debate concerned with the future shape of relation between the state and society, as well as secular West and modernizing Islamic East. I wish to argue that civil society in Middle East is marked by significant turn towards reislamization and politicization effecting from the concern with the formation of the Muslim nation-states in this region. I focus on the role of religion in the process through which civil society is being shaped and the power structures in the Middle East are being justified. I point out two parallel mechanizms constitutive for the formation of civil society in this region: objectification, understood as religious awareness, and fragmentation, which effects from decreasing role of religious authorities in providing "the right and only" interpretation of religion, caused by an acces to variety of interpretations delivered by mass media. ; Daniel Platek

This book examines recent reformations of Islam and culture in Turkey and the successful Islamic modernist Fethullah Gülen movement. Combining a devotion to Islam with love for modern learning, especially modern science, the Fethullah Gülen movement has gained a substantial following in Turkey over the past twenty years, and since 1991 has achieved great influence in Central Asia through the establishment of schools. Contributors explore the origins and establishment of the Gülen movement, its intellectual and religious formation, its spread across Turkey and Central Asia, and its influence on citizens outside the movement, including on leading Turkish politicians.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Politics of Engagement: First Encounters with the Non-defiant -- 2. From Fences That Divide to Boundaries That Link the State and Islam -- 3. Contestations over Education -- 4. The Appeal of Cooperation: National Affinities and International Undertakings -- 5. Compromising Women's Agency: Bonds between Islamic and Secular Actors -- 6. The AKP Institutionalizes the Engagement: "Marriage of Convenience" between the State and Islam? -- Conclusion: Reflections on Democratization in the Middle East: The Ambiguities of Promoting the "Turkish Model" for Democracy -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Mawlana Mawdudi was one of the most influential and important Islamic thinkers of the modern world, whose brand of political Islam has won widespread acceptance in South and South East Asia as well as the Middle East. He was not only an Islamic scholar, but also a journalist and political activist who founded the Jama'at-i-Islami, which has subsequently influenced the development of many Islamic movements and parties throughout the Muslim world. This book is the first to critically engage and assess his career and legacy within the wider context of political Islam. It includes coverage of his.