Introduction
Chapter 1: Modernity and Its Content
Chapter 2: Islamists, Modernity and The West
Chapter 3: The Welfare Party and Islamism,
State, Secularisation and Democracy In Turkey
Chapter 4: The Welfare Party and Turkish Nationalism, Turkish Economy, Capitalism; Science, Technology, Industrialisation; Modernity and The West
Summary and Conclusıon
Bıblıography
ABSTRACT
This study focuses on the Welfare Party elite’s conceptualisation of modernity during the party’s last 4-5 years before its closure in 1998. Since the party was the most important Islamist organisation in Turkey, it was at an important point of interaction between Islamism and modernity. The study tries to determine the significance of the WP discourse on key modernisation issues by answering such questions as how the WP elite conceptualised modernity; how this conceptualisation was formulated, constructed and what was modernity’s relationship with the West in their view. It argues that, the WP elite had a distinct...
