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This article explains why Turkey, Algeria, and Pakistan, three key Muslim nation-states that are of critical importance for Middle Eastern, North African and South Asian politics, respectively, have been struggling with both Islamist and ethnic separatist challenges since their founding earlier in the 20th century.

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Turkey, Algeria, and Pakistan are critically important countries for the past, present, and arguably the future of the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia. Therefore, it is of utmost importance to analyze the root causes of the two most fundamental and existential challenges Turkey, Algeria, and Pakistan have been facing for many decades: Islamism and ethnic separatism. In this article I explain how the root cause of both Islamist and ethnic separatist challenges is the strikingly similar contradiction that I discovered at the very origins of their nation-building earlier in the 20th century.

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This page is a summary of: Religion and Nationalism: Contradictions of Islamic Origins and Secular Nation-Building in Turkey, Algeria, and Pakistan*, Social Science Quarterly, August 2015, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/ssqu.12191.
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