Challenging widespread readings of politics in Muslim countries as torn between “Islam/ism” vs. secularism” or “democracy”, my book, Contesting Pluralism(s): Islamism, Liberalism and Nationalism in Turkey and Beyond (Cambridge UP, in-press), offers an alternative key to (Turkey’s) politics. Debunking Orientalist binaries, the book proposes an original framework with which to distill causal complexity in political contestation. On the basis of extensive historical and contemporary research, including 15+ years of ethnographic immersion and 100+ interviews, I show that contestation is actually driven by shifting alliances for and against pluralism. Cross-camp coalitions pit people who are willing to co-exist with “Other(s)” against champions of unitary, ethno- or ethno-religious nationalism. Using this novel pluralizers vs. anti-pluralist key to retell Turkey’s story from the late Ottoman empire to the present, the book offers new explanations for major outcomes from revolutions to coup d’etats. In so doing, it offers a framework for re-reading the relationship between religion, politics and pluralism which travels across—but also beyond—the Muslim-majority world