Rate My Professor Hakan Yavuz

Throughout his career at the University of Utah, where he joined as an assistant professor in 1998 and advanced to full professor, Yavuz has authored and edited numerous influential books and articles. Key publications include Islamic Political Identity in Turkey (2003), Secularism and Muslim Democracy in Turkey (2009), Turkish Islam and the Secular State: The Gülen Movement (2003), The Emergence of a New Turkey: Islam, Democracy, and the AK Parti (2006), The Kurds Ascending: The Evolving Solution to the Kurdish Problem in Iraq and Turkey (2011), Toward an Islamic Enlightenment: The Gülen Movement (2013), and Nostalgia for the Empire: The Politics of Neo-Ottomanism (2020). Other notable works encompass Political Islam and the Welfare (Refah) Party in Turkey (1997), Five Stages of the Construction of Kurdish Nationalism in Turkey (2001), and Turkish Identity and Foreign Policy in Flux: The Rise of Neo-Ottomanism (1998). These contributions have shaped scholarly discourse on the Gülen movement, Neo-Ottomanism, Kurdish issues, and the evolution of secularism in Turkey. Yavuz received the Superior Teaching Award for Senior Professor from the College of Social and Behavioral Science at the University of Utah. His scholarship provides critical analysis of religion's role in modern politics and state-building processes.