Law as Metaphor

From Islamic Courts to the Palace of Justice

von June Starr

243 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

This book explains the growth of secular law in a Middle East nation, revealing it to be the product of elite competition over control of the state, a competition the secular elites won in Turkey when Ataturk set up the new Republic. The author demonstrates the great extent to which secularism dominates the discourse of Turkish conflict resolution by the mid-1960s. Her work exemplifies the uses of empirical field research set within a historical context.