List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction, Sibel Bozdogan and Resat KasabaKemalist Certainties and Modern Ambiguities, Resat KasabaWhither the Project of Modernity? Turkey in the 1990s, Caglar KeyderModernization Policies and Islamist Politics in Turkey, Haldun GulalpProjects as Methodology: Some Thoughts on Modern Turkish Social Science, Serif MardinThe Quest for the Islamic Self within the Context of Modernity, Nilufer GoleThe Project of Modernity and Women in Turkey, Yesim AratGendering the Modern: On Missing Dimensions in the Study of Turkish Modernity, Deniz KandiyotiThe Predicament of Modernism in Turkish Architectural Culture: An Overview, Sibel BozdoganOnce There Was, Once There wasn't: National Monuments and Interpersonal Exchange, Michael E. MeekerSilent Interruptions: Urban Encounters with Rural Turkey, Gulsum Baydar NalbantogluArabesk Culture: A Case of Modernization and Popular Identity, Ernest GellnerThe Turkish Option in Comparative Perspective, Roger OwenModernizing Projects in Middle Eastern Perspective, Joel S. MigdalFinding the Meeting Ground of Fact and Fiction: Some Reflections on Turkish Modernization, Joel S. MigdalList of ContributorsIndex.