@article{2017,title={REVOLUTIONARY AND LIBERTARIAN ISLAM: A DIVERGENT ISLAMIC PERSPECTIVE ON MODERNITY},abstractNode={A social movement called the “Anti-Capitalist Muslims” joined the 2013 Gezi Park protests and attracted attention from the media for several years. The movement was inspired by the ideas of İhsan Eliaçık, an Islamic thinker known for his opposition to the AK Party (Justice and Development Party) administration. Though the movement and the thinker have parted ways in recent years, Eliaçık remains a notable figure within the Islamic political opposition in Turkey. This study critically reviews several predominant theories about Islam and modernity in light of the Islamic perspective put forward by Eliaçık. It is argued that even though Islamism in Turkey has been profoundly influenced by the Western political thought, Islamic thinkers such as Eliaçık are also in the process of mixing Western ideas and Islamic values together – which results in a hybrid vision of modernity that does not fully conform to the Western model.},author={Oğuzhan GÖKSEL},year={2017},journal={The Journal of Academic Social Science}}