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Speaking for Islam
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 321

Speaking for Islam

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Focuses on Middle Eastern Muslim majority societies in the period from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. This work contains papers which highlight the scope and variety of religious authorities in Muslim societies.

Education Materialised
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 514

Education Materialised

Manuscripts have played a crucial role in the educational practices of virtually all cultures that have a history of using them. As learning and teaching tools, manuscripts become primary witnesses for reconstructing and studying didactic and research activities and methodologies from elementary levels to the most advanced. The present volume investigates the relation between manuscripts and educational practices focusing on four particular research topics: educational settings: teachers, students and their manuscripts; organising knowledge: syllabi; exegetical practices: annotations; modifying tradition: adaptations. The volume offers a number of case studies stretching across geophysical boundaries from Western Europe to South-East Asia, with a time span ranging from the second millennium BCE to the twentieth century CE.

Regimes of Ethnicity and Nationhood in Germany, Russia, and Turkey
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 327

Regimes of Ethnicity and Nationhood in Germany, Russia, and Turkey

Akturk discusses how the definition of being German, Soviet, Russian and Turkish changed at the turn of the twenty-first century.

Toward an Islamic Enlightenment
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 309

Toward an Islamic Enlightenment

M. Hakan Yavuz offers an insightful and wide-ranging study of the Gulen Movement, one of the most controversial developments in contemporary Islam. Founded in Turkey by the Muslim thinker Fethullah Gulen, the Gulen Movement aims to disseminate a ''moderate'' interpretation of Islam through faith-based education. Its activities have fundamentally altered religious and political discourse in Turkey in recent decades, and its schools and other institutions have been established throughout Central Asia and the Balkans, as well as western Europe and North America. Consequently, its goals and modus operandi have come under increasing scrutiny around the world. Yavuz introduces readers to the movem...

Gendered Identities
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 205

Gendered Identities

This study is an effort to reveal how patriarchy is embedded in different societal and state structures, including the economy, juvenile penal justice system, popular culture, economic sphere, ethnic minorities, and social movements in Turkey. All the articles share the common ground that the political and economic sphere, societal values, and culture produce conservatism regenerate patriarchy and hegemonic masculinity in both society and the state sphere. This situation imprisons women within their houses and makes non-heterosexuals invisible in the public sphere, thereby preserving the hegemony of men in the public sphere by which this male-dominated mentality or namely hegemonic masculinity excludes all forms of others and tries to preserve hierarchical structures. In this regard, the citizenship and the gender regime bound to each other function as an exclusion mechanism that prevents tolerance and pluralism in society and the political sphere.

Beyond Religious Freedom
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 216

Beyond Religious Freedom

In recent years, North American and European nations have sought to legally remake religion in other countries through an unprecedented array of international initiatives. Policymakers have rallied around the notion that the fostering of religious freedom, interfaith dialogue, religious tolerance, and protections for religious minorities are the keys to combating persecution and discrimination. Beyond Religious Freedom persuasively argues that these initiatives create the very social tensions and divisions they are meant to overcome. Elizabeth Shakman Hurd looks at three critical channels of state-sponsored intervention: international religious freedom advocacy, development assistance and na...

37 Company Book - FABRIC
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 139

37 Company Book - FABRIC

This book is the largest referral for Turkish companies.

Labors of Love
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 433

Labors of Love

How to raise a child became a central concern of intellectual debate from Cairo to Beirut over the course of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Intimately linked with discussions around capitalism and democracy, considerations about women, gender, and childrearing emerged as essential to modern social theory. Arab writers, particularly women, made sex, the body, and women's ethical labor central to fending off European imperial advances, instituting representative politics, and managing social order. Labors of Love traces the political power of motherhood and childrearing in Arabic thought. Susanna Ferguson reveals how debates around raising children became foundational to fe...

Alevis and Sunnis: Searching for Peace and Future Together
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 24

Alevis and Sunnis: Searching for Peace and Future Together

Abant Platform, established by Journalists&Writers Foundation in 1998, bring together over a hundred intellectuals, academics, journalists, and civil society leaders from across the political spectrum to discuss one of the most sensitive issue of Turkey. 30th Abant Platform meeting has been held between the dates 13-15 December 2013 at Abant, Turkey. Inside the booklet, you will find a summary of the speeches that deliver on the the meeting by the participants.

Neoliberalism and Global Insecurities
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 197

Neoliberalism and Global Insecurities

In this edited volume, the contributors show how global insecurities resulting from neoliberalism and globalism have left the entire society insecure in Turkey. They focus on resistance and resilience strategies of vulnerable groups from a variety of perspectives, including environmental groups, social classes, social media, and gender.