This book identifies a new Islamic form in Turkey: Muslimism. Neither fundamentalism nor liberal religion, Muslimism engages modernity through Islamic categories and practices. This new form has implications for discussions of democracy and Islam in the region, similar movements across religious traditions, and social theory on religion.

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Neslihan Cevik is Associate Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, University of Virginia, USA. She is an engaged social entrepreneur whose work has appeared in CNN-Arabic, Daily Sabah, OrientXXI, and Political Theology Today and has been translated into Arabic, French, and Turkish.

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Acknowledgments
Introduction: Turkey's Muslimists: From Veil-Chic Women to a new political ethos

1. From Forbidden Modern to Guiltless Modernity
2. Muslimism versus Islamism
3. Muslimist Religious Temperaments
4. Muslimist Cultural Orientations and Everyday Life
5. Muslimist Political Ethos

Conclusion
Bibliography
Index