Book Review: The Fall of the Turkish Model: How the Arab Uprisings Brought Down Islamic Liberalism

2017-8
Büyükokutan, Barış
Cihan Tuğal’s The Fall of the Turkish Model: How the Arab Uprisings Brought Down Islamic Liberalism (2016) seeks to explain the limits of market-friendly conservative Islam as a political template for the Middle East.

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Citation Formats
B. Büyükokutan, “Book Review: The Fall of the Turkish Model: How the Arab Uprisings Brought Down Islamic Liberalism,” ODTÜ Gelişme Dergisi, vol. 44, no. 2, pp. 257–260, 2017, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: http://www2.feas.metu.edu.tr/metusd/ojs/index.php/metusd/article/view/991.