This chapter is about the attempt to “redraw borders” of ourselves, “unlearn” markers of our world, and “talk across” borders and markers. I focus on the Turkish Islamist attempt to construct an alternative community to that of the nation, by using the tool of the nation-state. In its inception, the Turkish nation-state established its borders and authority in opposition to the religious groups that prevailed in the country. The secular nation-state redrew the boundaries of Islam in public space in its struggle to claim its territorial hegemony. Ironically, in contemporary Turkey, the Islamist groups used the public space and the political democracy that the nation-state legitimized within its territorial boundaries to herald the Islamist call. The translocal solidarities and norms that Islamists appealed to could best be cultivated in the context of the political arena the nation-state needed to legitimize its secular rule. Ultimately, the Islamists in Turkey who envisioned crossing territorial boundaries of the nation-state could hope to realize their own political ambitions within these borders they criticized.