Secularism is one of the main controversial topics occupying country’s agenda in the last 30 years. The underlying reason of secularism being discussed as a heated agenda topic, not only in Turkey but all over the world, is the questioning of Enlightenment values, including nation states, by postmodernism. Also, political Islam, gradually expanding its area of influence today, is starting new discussion topics concerning secularism. Specific to Turkey, when the rise of political Islam with its level reached today and the secular reformation era in the country by the beginning of 20th century thought side by side, a striking contrast is evident. However, center-periphery paradigm, the dominant paradigm on secularism studies in Turkey, is mai...