The Oxford Handbook of Religion in Turkey

Caroline Tee is Professor of the Anthropology of Islam at the University of Chester, UK. Her research focuses on contemporary religion in Turkey, and she has carried out extensive ethnographic fieldwork amongst the Alevis and the community associated with Fethullah Gülen. She is author of The Gülen Movement in Turkey: The Politics of Islam and Modernity (London: IB Tauris, 2016) and her work has also been published in journals including British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Sociology of Islam, European Journal of Turkish Studies, Politics, Religion and Ideology, and Journal of Contemporary Religion. Professor Tee is editor of the Edinburgh Studies in the Anthropology of Islam series at Edinburgh University Press and, between 2024-27, she is Principal Investigator for "Muslims, the Secular, and Existential Risk", funded by Templeton Religion Trust.

Fabio Vicini is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Verona, Italy, and founder and convener of the Muslim Worlds Network of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA). He is the author of Reading Islam: Life and Politics of Brotherhood in Modern Turkey (Boston and Leiden: Brill, 2020). Located at the cutting edge of interdisciplinary inquiry in Anthropology, Islamic studies, and Social Theory, his research has investigated how, in the last one hundred years, Muslims in Turkey have been rethinking the Islamic tradition through the conceptual apparatus of modernity while continuing to rely on longstanding Islamic ideas of the self, discipline, connectivity, and transcendence. His work has been published, among other venues, in HAU - Journal of Ethnographic Theory, Culture and Religion, Anthropology & Education Quarterly, Ethnicities, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies.

Philip Dorroll is Associate Professor of Religion at Wofford College, USA, and author of Islamic Theology in the Turkish Republic (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021). He received his Ph.D. in Religion from Emory University. His published research has focused on the history of modern Islamic theology in Turkish, classical Islamic theology in Arabic, and Eastern Christian theology in classical Arabic. His work been published in venues such as Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Journal of Islamic Studies, Journal of Orthodox Christian Studies, Studies in World Christianity, Contemporary Islam, Review of Middle East Studies, and Religion Compass. His research on Islamic theology has been translated into Albanian, Bosnian, and Turkish. He is also current co-chair of the Eastern Orthodox Studies Unit at the American Academy of Religion.