'Banu's highly perceptive analysis provides an excellent resume or how Islamic oriented political parties can achieve their strategic targets by developing social networking even within a not so friendly constitutional and political culture.' The Muslim World Book Review
1. Introduction; 2. Emergence of the Islamist social movement in Turkey; 3. The Turkish-Islamic synthesis and the Islamist social movement; 4. The malfunctioning state and consolidation of the Islamist social movement; 5. Organizational dynamics of the Islamist social movement; 6. The soft intervention of 1997 and the Islamist social movement; 7. The Islamist social movement today and prospects for the future.