Between Islam and the State: The Politics of Engagement

"The need to understand Islam is obvious. Berna Turam's elegant and incisive ethnography of Turkey's Gulenist movement makes a major contribution in showing tension and diversity within the Islamic world."John A. Hall, McGill University "In dealing with Islam, books have seemed incapable of going beyond terrorism, jihad, and al-Qaeda. But, Berna Turam ably demonstrates that Islam has multiple faces and diverse ways of dealing with the existing secular world. For anyone who wants to understand the evolving role of Islam in the Middle East and beyond, Between Islam and the State is a must read."Joel Migdal, University of WashingtonBerna Turam is the author of 'Between Islam and the State: The Politics of Engagement', published 2006 under ISBN 9780804755009 and ISBN 0804755000.