© The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Academy of Religion. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com. Roundtable on Living Neoliberalism: Negotiating Markets and Morality Outside the West A Just Economy? Unifying and Dividing the Islamic Intellectual Field in Neoliberal Turkey Gizem Zencirci* In this paper, I argue that the relationship between religion and neo- liberalism in non-Western contexts cannot be understood without paying attention to the contested, dynamic, and fluid production of local know- ledge. In order to substantiate this argument, I trace debates about de- velopment, equality, class, labor, and wealth that circulate in the Islamic intellectual field in Turkey. Specifically, I analyze the viewpoints of three contemporary Turkish Muslim intellectuals who make different claims about Islam’s economic teachings. Mustafa Özel proposes “entrepreneurial Islam” as an alternative to state-regulated capitalism, Ihsan Eliaçık argues that “social Islam” ordains Muslims to redistribute wealth, whereas Lütfi Bergen suggests that “pastoral Islam” precedes Western capitalist mod- ernity. I find that the disputed notion of a just economy is what unifies and divides this intellectual field as a constitutive question that is disagreed upon. This article thus calls for a recognition of the contingency, multipli- city, and indeterminacy of Islamic-neoliberal assemblages. *Gizem Zencirci, Department of Political Science, Providence College, 1 Cunningham Square, Providence, RI 02908, USA. Email: fzencirc@providence.edu. I thank the editors of this special issue, Kirsten Wesselhoeft and Deonnie Moodie, and the editor and reviewers at the Journal of the American Academy of Religion for a remarkably constructive editorial and review process. I also would like to thank Alev Çınar, Talha Köseoğlu, Halil Ibrahim Yenigün, and participants at the Political Thought in Turkey Workshop for their helpful comments. Lastly, I thank Patrick Shea for his valuable research support. Journal of the American Academy of Religion, September 2021, Vol. 89, No. 3, pp. 1–862 https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfab078 Downloaded from https://academic.oup.com/jaar/article/89/3/840/6377685 by Providence College Phillips Memorial Library user on 30 September 2021