Rethinking modernity and national identity in Turkey / edited by Sibel Bozdoğan and Reşat Kasaba.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Kemalist certainties and modern ambiguities / Reşat Kasaba -- Whither the project of modernity? Turkey in the 1990s / Çaǧlar Keyder -- Modernization policies and Islamist politics in Turkey / Haldun Gülalp -- Projects as methodology : some thoughts on modern Turkish social science / Şerif Mardin -- The quest for the Islamic self within the context of modernity / Nilüfer Göle -- The project of modernity and women in Turkey / Yeşim Arat -- Gendering the modern : on missing dimensions in the study of Turkish modernity / Deniz Kandiyoti -- The predicament of modernism in Turkish architectural culture : an overview / Sibel Bozdoǧan -- Once there was, once there wasn't : national monuments and interpersonal exchange / Michael E. Meeker -- Silent interruptions : urban encounters with rural Turkey / Gülsüm Baydar Nalbantoǧlu -- Arabesk culture : a case of modernization and popular identity / Meral Özbek -- The Turkish option in comparative perspective / Ernest Gellner -- Modernizing projects in Middle Eastern perspective / Roger Owen -- Finding the meeting ground of fact and fiction : some reflections on Turkish modernization / Joel S. Migdal.

The essays in this book are the first attempt to examine the Turkish experiment with modernity from a broad, interdisciplinary perspective, encompassing the fields of history, the social sciences, the humanities, architecture, and urban planning. The contributors offer a fresh, balanced understanding of dilemmas now facing not only Turkey but also many other parts of the Middle East and the world at large.