Authoritarianism, Informal Law, and Legal Hybridity: The Islamisation of the State in Turkey

by Ihsan Yilmaz

This book investigates Turkey's departure from a 'flawed democracy' under Kemalist secularism, and its transitioning into Islamist authoritarian Erdoğanism, 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9811902755
• ISBN13: 9789811902758
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"