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Cover -- Under The Banner Of Islam -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Introduction: Ethnicity And Muslim Fraternity -- Under The Banner Of Islam? -- The Ambivalence Of The Sacred: Religion And Conflict Resolution -- The Porous Borders Of Religion And Ethnicity -- The Shifting Borders Of Religious And Political Fields -- Organizational Structure -- 1. Green Kemalism: The Evolving Role Of Islam In The Kurdish Conflict -- Kurdish Revolts In The Late Ottoman Period: Against Centralization? Kurds In The Early Republican Period: Kurdish-islamic Synthesis? -- The Secularization Of The Kurdish Movement: 1950-1978 -- Bringing Islam Back In: 1990-2002 -- 2. Islam As Cement: The Way Out? -- There Is Only One Nation And That Is The Nation Of Abraham -- The Ummah That Never Was -- Akp's Kurdish Policy: Neo-ottoman Pan-islamism -- 3. Muslim Kurds: The Case For Religio-ethnic Identity -- God Could Have Created Us All The Same: Religious Roots Of Ethnicity -- Kurdish Islam Embodied: Civil Friday Prayers -- Turkey's Religious Field In The 2000s: A Bourdieusian Analysis Islam As A Tool Of Resistance -- 4. Only Turks Can Lead A Muslim Union: The Case For Ethno-religious Identity -- Ottomanism, Islamism, Turkism: The Birth Pangs Of Turkish Nationalism -- Turkish History Thesis And The Turkification Of Islam -- Turkey's Pending Dilemma: The Turkish-islamic Synthesis -- Akp's Transformation: From 'the Kurd's Qur'an' To 'the Turk's Flag' -- Conclusion: United In Religion, Divided By Ethnicity? -- The Way Forward: Whither Kurdish Conflict? -- Appendix: Methodology -- References -- Index. Gülay Türkmen. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Electronic Reproduction. Oxford Available Via World Wide Web.