Turks in Kayseri
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Isabel Hilton travels to Turkey to examine the remarkable phenomenon of Islamic Calvinism, a brand of Islam which extols the virtues of business and the free market.
Emerging from the central belt of Anatolia, the country's conservative Muslim heartland, it's the product of an economic boom which in turn has given birth to a radical transformation in religious values.
Isabel journeys across Turkey to meet those in the vanguard of the entrepreneurial Islamic movement. She explores how local business practices are leading to a quiet religious reformation.
She also traces the wider impact of the changes in Anatolia on Turkey 's cultural and political landscape, and its possible consequences for global Islam.
