Kemalist certainties and modern ambiguities / Whither the project of modernity? Turkey in the 1990s / Modernization policies and Islamist politics in Turkey / Projects as methodology : some thoughts on modern Turkish social science / The quest for the Islamic self within the context of modernity / The project of modernity and women in Turkey / Gendering the modern : on missing dimensions in the study of Turkish modernity / The predicament of modernism in Turkish architectural culture : an overview / Once there was, once there wasn't : national monuments and interpersonal exchange / Silent interruptions : urban encounters with rural Turkey / Arabesk culture : a case of modernization and popular identity / The Turkish option in comparative perspective / Modernizing projects in Middle Eastern perspective / Finding the meeting ground of fact and fiction : some reflections on Turkish modernization