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Reading Islam : life and politics of brotherhood in modern Turkey
- Title
- Reading Islam : life and politics of brotherhood in modern Turkey / by Fabio Vicini.
- Author
- Vicini, Fabio, 1981-
- Publication
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020]
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Details
- Description
- x, 240 pages; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "In Reading Islam Fabio Vicini offers a journey within the intimate relations, reading practices, and forms of intellectual engagement that regulate Muslim life in two enclosed religious communities in Istanbul. Combining anthropological observation with textual and genealogical analysis, he illustrates how the modes of thought and social engagement promoted by these two communities are the outcome of complex intellectual entanglements with modern discourses about science, education, the self, and Muslims' place and responsibility in society. In this way, Reading Islam sheds light on the formation of new generations of faithful and socially active Muslims over the last thirty years and on their impact on the turn of Turkey from an assertive secularist Republic to an Islamic-oriented form of governance"--
- Series Statement
- Social, economic and political studies of the Middle East and Asia, 1385-3376 ; volume 123
- Uniform Title
- Social, economic, and political studies of the Middle East ; v. 123.
- Subjects
- Islamic learning and scholarship
- Muslims > Religious life
- Turkey
- Islamic renewal
- Reading
- Turkey > Istanbul
- History
- Muslims > Religious life > Turkey > Istanbul
- Islamic renewal > Turkey
- 2000-2099
- Gülen Hizmet Movement
- Weşanên Nûbihar > Rêza Rîsaleyên Nur > Reading
- Muslims > Turkey > Istanbul > Intellectual life > 21st century
- Islamic learning and scholarship > Turkey > Istanbul > History > 21st century
- Islam and politics > Turkey
- Islam > Social aspects > Turkey
- Muslims > Intellectual life
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Reading Islam in modern times -- Outreaches of religious service -- Living the brotherhood -- Reading, reflection and the search for transcendence -- Putting Islam to work -- Politics of brotherhood.
- Call Number
- JFE 21-21
- ISBN
- 9789004409316
- 9004409319
- 9789004413757 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2019037124
- OCLC
- 1121422017
- Author
- Vicini, Fabio, 1981- author.
- Title
- Reading Islam : life and politics of brotherhood in modern Turkey / by Fabio Vicini.
- Publisher
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Social, economic and political studies of the Middle East and Asia, 1385-3376 ; volume 123Social, economic, and political studies of the Middle East ; v. 123.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 2000-2099
- Other Form:
- Online version: Vicini, Fabio, 1981-. Reading Islam. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2019. 9789004413757 (DLC) 2019037125
- Research Call Number
- JFE 21-21