Turkey: The Veiling Issue: Official Secularism and Popular Islam in Modern Turkey
Magnarella, Paul J., The Middle East Journal
TURKEY
The Veiling Issue: Official Secularism and Popular Islam in Modern Turkey, by Elisabeth Ozdalga. Surrey, UK: Curzon Press, 1998. xx + 93 pages. Bibl. to p. 97. Index to p. 105. 35.
Reviewed by Paul J. Magnarella
The author of this interesting new book in the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies series is identified on the dust jacket as a researcher who divides her time between the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul and the Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara. The book's front matter, however, identifies her as a professor of sociology at METU.
The book begins with a historical sketch of the Turkish Republic's official secular …
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Publication information:
Article title: Turkey: The Veiling Issue: Official Secularism and Popular Islam in Modern Turkey.
Contributors: Magnarella, Paul J. - Author.
Journal title: The Middle East Journal.
Volume: 53.
Issue: 2
Publication date: Spring 1999.
Page number: 308.
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