Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1/ Introduction / Sibel Bozdogan and Resat Kasaba -- 2/ Kemalist Certainties and Modern Ambiguities / Resat Kasaba -- 3/ Whither the Project of Modernity? : Turkey in the 1900s / Caglar Keyder -- 4/ Modernization Policies and Islamist Politics in Turkey / Haldun Gulalp -- 5/ Projects as Methodology: Some Thoughts on Modern Turkish Social Science / Serif Mardin -- 6/ The Quest for the Islamic Self within the Context of Modernity / Nilufer Gole -- 7/ The Project of Modernity and Women in Turkey / Yesim Arat -- 8/ Gendering the Modern: On Missing Dimensions in the Stury of Turkish Modernity / Deniz Kandiyoti -- 9/ The Predicament of Modernism in Turkish Architectural Culture: An Overview / Sibel Bozdogan -- 10/ Once There Was, Once There Wasn't: National Monuments and Interpersonal Exchange / Michael E. Meeker -- 11/ Silent Interruptions: Urban Encounters with Rural Turkey / Gulsum Baydar Nalbantoglu -- 12/ Arabesk Culture: A Case of Modernization and Popular Identity / Meral Ozbek -- 13/ The Turkish Option in Comparative Persepctive / Ernest Gellner -- 14/Modernizing Projects in Middle Eastern Perspective / Roger Owen -- 15/ Finding the Meeting Ground of Fact and Fiction: Some Reflections on Turkish Modernization / Joel S. Migdal -- List of Contributors -- Index.