Books by Elisabeth Ozdalga

In the light of a century-long conflict between secularism and popular Islam, this study describes the conflict over the veil as it became a burning issue in the decade following the military intervention of 1980, and remains a matter of controversy.

Modernisation brought about market principles to the economy and more complex administrative controls as part of state power. This book compares the different intellectual atmospheres between the pre-republican and the republican periods, and identifies the roots of republican authoritarianism in the intellectual heritage of the earlier period.