life and politics of brotherhood in modern Turkey /
First Statement of Responsibility
by Fabio Vicini.
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Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Boston :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Brill,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
[2020]
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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1 online resource (x, 240 pages)
SERIES
Series Title
Social, economic and political studies of the Middle East and Asia,
Volume Designation
volume 123
ISSN of Series
1385-3376 ;
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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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.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"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"--