This volume collects the work of Michael E. Meeker on Turkish society. Meeker’s research is based on field work he conducted in rural Turkey in the 1960s and then in Istanbul in the 1980s. Meeker’s interest is in how Turkish social conventions imply structures of political authority. In Turkey, formal institutions and interpersonal association have a close relationship, something which dates back to Ottoman times. The first two sections are devoted to the Black Sea Turks in general and then the Black Sea district of Of. The third part is devoted to Meeker’s writings on an Islamic resurgence in Turkey. The fourth and final part contains articles on political authority and interpersonal relationships in Turkey, past and present.

• TABLE OF CONTENTS (page 7)
• SECTION ONE THE BLACK SEA TURKS (page 17)
• THE BLACK SEA TURKS: SOME ASPECTS OF THEIR ETHNIC AND CULTURAL BACKGROUND (page 19)
• MEANING AND SOCIETY IN THE NEAR EAST: EXAMPLES FROM THE BLACK SEA TURKS AND THE LEVANTINE ARABS (1) (page 51)
• MEANING AND SOCIETY IN THE NEAR EAST: EXAMPLES FROM THE BLACK SEA TURKS AND THE LEVANTINE ARABS (II) (page 85)
• COMMUNITY AS SIGNIFICANCE AND COMMUNITY AS LOVE (page 87)
• CONTRASTS IN MARRIAGE PATTEERNS, AMONG AND ARABS (page 93)
• CONSEQUENCES OF THE CONTRAST IN CULTURAL STRUCTURING (page 98)
• Cultural structuring and explanations of FBD marriage (page 101)
• The preference for FBD,marriage and other agnatic marriages (page 112)
• SECTION TWO SOCIETY AND STATE IN THE DISTRICT OF OF (page 131)
• THE GREAT FAMILY AGHAS OF TURKEY : A STUDY OF A CHANGING POLITICAL CULTURE (page 133)
• CONCEPTS OF PERSON, FAMILY,AND STATE IN THE DISTRICT OF OF (REVISED) (page 167)
• THE MURADOGLU FAMILY LINE (page 185)
• MICHAEL DEFFNERS FIVE WEEKS AMONG THE ABJURERS OF OF TRANSLATED BY ALLAN TAYLOR (page 207)
• SECTION THREE WRITERS AND WRITING OF THE ISLAMIC RESURGENCE (page 215)
• THE NEW MUSLIM INTELLECTUALS IN THE REPUBLIC OF TURKEY (page 217)
• ALI BULAC (page 225)
• ORAL CULTURE, MEDIA CULTURE,AND THE ISLAMIC RESURGENCE IN TURKEY (page 245)
• THE MUSLIM INTELLECTUAL AND AUDIENCE: A NEW CONFIGURATION OF WRITER AND READER AMONG BELIEVERS IN THE REPUBLIC OF TURKEY (page 273)
• Ismet Ozel: The Cultural politics of the Muslim Intellectual (page 281)
• SECTION FOUR INTERPERSONAL EXCHANGE AND POLITICAL AUTHORITY (page 305)
• THE DEDE KORRUT ETHIC (page 307)
• ONCE THERE WAS, ONCE THERE WASNT: NATIONAL MONUMENTS AND INTERPERSONAL EXCHANGE (page 337)