Overview
- Explores the instrumentalization of Islamist legal pluralism by the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in Turkey
- Shows how its selective favouritism towards Sunni Islam is as destructive as the Kemalist philosophy
- Argues for alterations to better accommodate the informal legal systems of marginalized groups
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book investigates Turkey’s departure from a ‘flawed democracy’ under Kemalist secularism, and its transitioning into Islamist authoritarian Erdoğanism, through the lenses of informal law, legal pluralism, and legal hybridity. In doing so, it examines the attempts of Turkey’s ruling party (AKP) at social engineering and gradual Islamisation of the Turkish state and society, by using informal Islamist laws.
To that end, the book argues that the AKP has paved the way for Islamist legal hybridity where society, state, and law, are being gradually Islamised on an ad hoc basis. Informal law and legal pluralism in Turkey have had a non-state characteristic which have permitted Muslims to solve disputes by seeking the opinions of religio-legal scholars. Yet under the AKP rule, this informal legal system has become increasingly dominated by conservatives, sometimes radical Islamists, which the governing party has taken advantage of by either formalizing some partsof the informal Islamist law, or using it informally to mobilize its supporters against the opposition.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Ihsan Yilmaz is Research Professor and Chair at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. He has conducted mixed method research on authoritarianism, legal pluralism, nation-building, citizenship, Islam–state–law relations in majority and minority contexts (Turkey, Pakistan, Egypt, Indonesia, UK, USA and Australia), Islamism, populism, transnationalism, ethnoreligious and political minorities, securitisation, and intergroup relations. He was Professor of Political Science at Istanbul Fatih University (2008–2016), Lecturer in Law, Social Sciences and Politics at SOAS, University of London (2001–2008), and a fellow at Centre for Islamic Studies, the University of Oxford (1999–2001).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Authoritarianism, Informal Law, and Legal Hybridity
Book Subtitle: The Islamisation of the State in Turkey
Authors: Ihsan Yilmaz
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-0276-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-19-0275-8Published: 07 April 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-19-0278-9Published: 08 April 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-981-19-0276-5Published: 06 April 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 258
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Politics and Religion, Religious Studies, general, Comparative Religion, Islam