Living Islam: Women, Religion and the Politicization of Culture in Turkey (Library of Modern Middle East Studies) [Hardcover]

Ayse Saktanber (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 11, 2002 | ISBN-10: 1860641784 | ISBN-13: 978-1860641787

How and why have women come to play a central role in the political project of Islamic revivalism and in the power struggles between Islamic and secular forces in Turkey? In this innovative book Ayse Saktanber rejects approaches to this issue that ask what Islam means for the position of women, or see Muslim women as the "reverse" or the "dark" side of modernity. Taking as her subject matter families who have come together to "live Islam" as "conscious Muslims" in a suburb of Ankara, she attempts instead to "render thinkable" the experiences of women who are not situated within the discourse of modernity, and to look at the ways in which they have become crucial agents in the effort to make Islam a living social practice in a secular order.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Islam and Christian - Muslim Relations, Vol. 16,, No. 2, 199-207, April 2005 "... a respectable contribution to the increasing number of works on women and society in Muslim cultures".

About the Author

Ayse Saktanber lectures in sociology at the Middle East Technical University, Ankara.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris (October 11, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1860641784
• ISBN-13: 978-1860641787
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.4 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,830,226 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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