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GÜNTER SEUFERT, Politischer Islam in der Türkei. Islamismus als symbolische Repräsentation einer sich modernisierenden muslimischen Gesellschaft, Beiruter Texte und Studien 67, Türkische Welten 3 (Istanbul: Deutschen Morgenländischen Institut, 1997). Pp. 598.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 June 2001

Catharina Raudvere
Catharina Raudvere
Affiliation:
Department of History of Religions, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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Abstract

The national elections in Turkey this April were not the expected success for the Islamist Fazilet Partisi (Virtue Party). Under its former name, Refah Partisi (Welfare Party), the party was the actual winner of the elections in late 1995, and many supporters were deeply disappointed at the result this spring. Why was the party weakened? Commentators inside and outside Turkey speculated from different points of view. Many of them portrayed issues in Turkish Islamism as questions relating to the party as an organization and with an apparent disinclination to regard the party as an umbrella for quite conflicting interests.

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BOOK REVIEW
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International Journal of Middle East Studies , Volume 32 , Issue 1 , February 2000 , pp. 188 - 189
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© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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