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This book investigates Turkey's departure from a 'flawed democracy' under Kemalist secularism, and its transitioning into Islamist Authoritarian Erdoganism, 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 have 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 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 parts of the informal Islamist law, or using it informally to mobilize its supporters against the opposition.

Book details

• Full title: Authoritarianism, Informal Law, and Legal Hybridity
• Subtitle: The Islamisation of the State in Turkey
• Author: Ihsan Yilmaz
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 258
• EAN: 9789811902758
• ID: 38626247
• Publisher: Springer Verlag, Singapore
• Weight: 478 g
• Dimensions: 210 × 148 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 07. April 2022

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