Kim Shively is Professor of Anthropology at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania. She has published articles on modern Turkey in American Ethnologist, Anthropological Theory, Anthropological Quarterly and Journal of Middle Eastern Women’s Studies and book chapters in The Turkish AK Party and its Leader (Routledge, 2016) and State of the Art: Anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa (Indiana University Press, 2013).

• Notes on Turkish Usage; Glossary; Commonly Used Acronyms; Preface; 1. Islam and Formation of the Modern Turkish Republic; 2. Sunni Islam: Popular Belief and Practice; 3. The Alevi Minority in Turkey; 4. Practicing Piety: Popular Religious Organizations; 5. Islamic Political Parties; 6. Religious Education: Institutions and Practices; 7. Neoliberalism and the Transformation of the 2000s; 8. The Latest Chapter; End Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Kim Shively’s book is the best available introduction to lived Islam in Turkey to date. Based on longstanding fieldwork, it offers a vivid and lucid picture of the manifold manifestations of Islam and its weaving with state and society since 1923. This is a must-read for all those interested in Turkish affairs.