Education:
- The University of Wisconsin-Madison, Ph.D.1998
- The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Master of Arts in Political Science, 1987-89
- The Leonard Davis Institute, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, ISRAEL, 1989
- The University of Ankara, Turkey, Bachelor of Arts, International Relations, Faculty of
- Political Science (Mülkiye Mektebi), Ankara, 1983-1987
Books:
Islamic Political Identity in Turkey (Oxford University Press, 2003). (3rd print)
with John Esposito eds., Turkish Islam and the Secular State: The Gulen Movement (Syracuse University Press, 2003).
Edited Journals:
With Roberta Micallef Turkish Diaspora, Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, 2004.
Kurdish Question in Turkey, Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, 1998.
Islam in Turkey: The Case of Said Nursi, The Muslim World, 1999.
Journal Articles:
M.H. Yavuz, "Is there a Turkish Islam? The Emergence of Convergence and Consensus," Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, Vol. 24, No. 2 (2004), 1-22.
M. Hakan Yavuz, "Die Renaissance des religiosen Bewusstseins in der Turkei: Nur-Studienzirkel," in Nilufer Gole and Ludwing Amman, Islam in Sicht (Biefeld, verlag, 2004), pp. 121-146.
"Turkey's Kurdish-Centered Iraqi Policy," In Mohammed A. A. Ahmed and Michael Gunter, eds., The Kurdish Question and the 2003 Iraqi War (Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publisher, 2004), pp. 163-173.
with M. Khan, "Turkey and Europe: Will east Meet West?," Current History, Vol. 103, No. 676 (November 2004), pp. 389-393.
"Turkey, Iraq and the Kurds," Panel Discussion, Middle East Policy, Vol. 11, No. 1 (Spring 2004), pp. 106-131.
Proceedings of the forum, "Conversations in Islam: Politics and Religion in the Global Public Sphere," Budapest, May 29, 2003. http://www.humanities.uci.edu/history/levineconference/MLbudapesttranscriptedit2.pdf
Edited version appearing in the Yearbook of the Sociology of Islam, 2004, forthcoming.
"A Typology of Islamic Social Movements: The Opportunity Spaces and the Case of Turkey," In Quintan Wiktorowicz and Charles Kuzman, eds. Islamic Activism: A Social Movement Theory Approach (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003), pp. 270-288.
"The Case of Turkey," Daedalus, Vol. 132, No. 3 (Summer 2003), pp. 59-62.
"Nur Study Circles (Dershanes) and the Formation of New Religious Consciousness in Turkey," In Islam at the Crossroads: On the life and thought of Bediuzzaman Said Nursi (New York: State University of New York Press, 2003), 297-316.
co-authored, "Bringing Turkey into Europe," Current History, Vol. 102, No. 662, (March 2003), pp. 119-123.
"The Politics of Fear: The Rise of the Nationalistic Action Party (MHP) in Turkey," Middle East Journal, Vol. 56, No. 2 (2002), pp. 200-221.
"Five Stages of the Construction of Kurdish Nationalism in Turkey," Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, vol. 7, No. 3 (Autumn 2001), pp. 1-24.
M.Hakan Yavuz and Michael M. Gunter, "The Kurdish Nation," Current History, (January 2001), pp. 33-39.
"Degisim Surecindeki Alevi Kimligi/Die alewitische Identitat in VeranderungsprozeB," Aleviler: Identitat und Geschichte Vol 1 (Hamburg: Deutsche Orient-Institut, 2000), pp. 75-95.
"Cleansing Islam from the Public Sphere and the February 28 Process," Journal of International Affairs (Columbia University Press), Vol. 54, No. 1 (Fall 2000), pp. 21-42.
"Turkish identity Politics and Central Asia," In Islam and Central Asia: An Enduring Legacy or an Evolving Threat?" eds., Roald Z. Sagdeev and Susan Eisenhower (Washington DC: the Center for Political and Strategic Studies, 2000), pp. 193-211.
"Turkey's Fault Lines and the Crisis of Kemalism," Current History, Vol. 99 (January 2000), pp. 33-39.
"The Assassination of Collective Memory: The Case of Turkey," The Muslim World Vol. 99 (1999), pp. 193-207.
"Towards an Islamic Liberalism?: The Nurcu Movement and Fethullah Gulen," The Middle East Journal, Vol. 53, No. 4 (Autumn 1999), pp. 584-605.
"Societal Search for a New Social Contract in Turkey: Fethullah Gulen, The Virtue Party and the Kurds," SAIS Review, Vol. 29, No. 1 (Winter 1999), pp. 114-143.
"Media Identities for Kurds and Alevis in Turkey," in New Media and the Politics of Civil Society in Muslim Societies eds. Dale F. Eickelman and Jon Anderson (Indiana University Press, 1999), pp. 180-200.
"The Matrix of Modern Turkish Islamic Movements: The Naqshbandi Sufi Order," In The Naqshbandis in Western and Central Asia, ed. Elisabeth Ozdalga (London: Curzon Press, 1999), pp. 125-142.
"The Abrading of the Turkish Republican Myths," JIME Review (Japan), Vol. 12, No. 41 (1998), pp. 18-34.
"Political Islam and the Welfare (Refah) Party in Turkey," Comparative Politics. Vol. 30, No. 1 (October 1997), pp. 63-82.
"Turkic Identity and Foreign Policy in Flux: The Rise of neo-Ottomanism," Critique, No. 12 (1998), pp. 19-42.
"A Preamble to the Kurdish Question: The Politics of Kurdish Identity," Introduction to special issue on the Kurds, Journal of Muslim Minority Affair, Vol. 18, No. 1 (1998) pp. 9-18.
"Turkish-Israeli Relations Through the Lens of the Turkish Identity Debate," Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol. 27, No. 1 (Autumn 1997), pp. 22-37.
"Return of Islam?" New Dynamics in State-Society Relations and the Role of Islam in Turkish Politics," Muslim World Report Vol. 1, No. 3 (1996), pp. 77-87.
"Nationalism and Islam: Yusuf Akçura, Uc Tarz-i Siyaset," Oxford Journal of Islamic Studies, Vol. 4, No. 2 (1993), pp. 175-207.
"The Patterns of Political Islamic Identity: Dynamics of National and Transnational Loyalties and Identities," Central Asian Survey, Vol 14, No. 3 (1995), pp. 341-372.
"Bosnian Struggle for Recognition," Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, Vol. 16, No.1 (1996), pp. 135-142.
"Turkey's Imagined Enemies: Kurds and Islamist," The World Today, (April 1996), pp. 98-103.
"Cyprus and International Politics," The Cyprus Review, Vol. 4, No. 2 (Fall 1992), pp. 135-143.
Co-author, "A Bridge between East and West" Duality and the Development of Turkish Foreign Policy Toward the Arab-Israeli Conflict" Arab Studies Quarterly, Vol. 14, No. 4 (Fall 1992), pp.69-95.
"The Evolution of Ethno-nationalism in Cyprus under the Ottoman and British Systems," The Cyprus Review, Vol. 3, No. 2 (Fall 1991), pp. 57-80.