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Living Islam: Women, Religion and the Politicization of Culture in Turkey
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Living Islam: Women, Religion and the Politicization of Culture in Turkey, by Ayse Saktanber. London, UK and New York: I.B. Tauris Publishers, 2002. xxxii + 239 pages. Appends, to p.248. Bibl. to p. 266. Index to p. 277. $59.50.
Reviewed by Emelie A. Olson
This book is a welcome addition to a very small corpus of studies on "Islamist" women in Turkey. Together with Jenny White's Islamist Mobilization in Turkey,1 also published in 2002, this greatly expands the information available in English on this important subject. Saktanber also represents a relatively new interest among Turkish social scientists in the scholarly study more generally of contemporary Islam in Turkey. …
