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Past Member

Alev Cinar

Affiliation

Social Science

Field of Study

Political Science
From
Alev Cinar is examining the intellectual basis for the Islam-based politics of the ruling AKP in Turkey, and argues that its immense electoral success partly is due to its unique ideology that merges globalized/​Western political thought with local Islamic knowledge.

Dates at IAS

Member
School of Social Science

Degrees

University of Pennsylvania
Ph.D.
1998