Snapshots of islamic modernities

Daedalus

Volumn 129, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 91-117

  Göle, Nilüfer ^a,b  

^a BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ÉCOLE DES HAUTES ÉTUDES EN SCIENCES SOCIALES   (France)

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References (34)

1. Cf. Charles Taylor and Benjamin Lee, Multiple Modernities Project: Modernity and Difference, working draft (Chicago: Center for Transcultural Studies, 1998), 10.
2. Shmuel N. Eisenstadt and Wolfgang Schluchter, "Introduction: Paths to Early Modernities - A Comparative View," Dædalus 127 (3) (Summer 1998): 6.
3. Here Islamism and Islam are used interchangeably to refer to Islamic social movements in the contemporary world that endow Muslims with a collective and conflictual identity in respect both to traditional definitions of Muslim identity and to the cultural program of modernity.
4. See David Frisby, Fragments of Modernity: Theories of Modernity in the Work of Simmel, Kracauer and Benjamin (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1985), 6.
5. Emmanuel Sivan, Radical Islam, Medieval Theology and Modern Politics (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1985), 50-82.
6. John O. Voll, "Renewal and Reform in Islamic History," in Voices of Resurgent Islam, ed. John L. Esposito (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983), 32-47.
7. Voices of Resurgent Islam, Ibid., 33.
8. For a discussion on the gendered nature of the public sphere for both modernist and Islamist projects, cf. Nilüfer Göle, "The Gendered Nature of the Public Sphere," Public Culture 24 (1997): 61-81.
9. Nilüfer Göle, The Forbidden Modern: Civilization and Veiling (Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, 1996).
10. Mai Yamani, ed., Feminism and Islam: Legal and Literary Perspectives (New York: New York University Press, 1996).
11. Cf. a series of articles published by the daily Islamic Turkish newspaper Zaman during September 1987, and Göle, The Forbidden Modern, 121-130.
12. Göle, The Forbidden Modern, 1987, 121-130. Ibid.
13. Seyla Benhabib, Situating the Self: Gender, Community, and Postmodernism in Contemporary Ethics (New York: Routledge Press, 1992).
14. Olson Emelie, "Muslim Identity and Secularism in Contemporary Turkey: The Headscarf Dispute," Anthropological Quarterly 58 (4) (1985): 161-171. The same debate exists also in Western contexts, especially in France.
15. Cf. Françoise Gaspard and Farhad Khosrokhavar, Le foulard et la République (Paris: Découverte, 1995).
16. I have elsewhere discussed this novel. Cf. Göle, "The Gendered Nature of the Public Sphere," 61-81.
17. Mehmet Efe, Mizraksiz Ilmihal (Istanbul: Yerli Yayinlar, 1993).
18. Mizraksiz Ilmihal Ibid., 78.
19. Mizraksiz Ilmihal Ibid., 16.
20. Mizraksiz Ilmihal Ibid., 15.
21. Mizraksiz Ilmihal Ibid., 17.
22. Mizraksiz Ilmihal Ibid., 32.
23. Mizraksiz Ilmihal Ibid., 49.
24. Mizraksiz Ilmihal Ibid., 50-51.
25. Mizraksiz Ilmihal Ibid., 170-173.
26. Mizraksiz Ilmihal Ibid., 19.
27. Alain Touraine, Critique of Modernity, trans. David Macey (Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell, 1995), 226-227.
28. The author recently married an American woman whom he "dated" on the Internet.
29. Farzaneh Milani, Veils and Words: The Emerging Voices of Iranian Women Writers (Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1992), 201-202.
30. On how to read, analyze, and interpret contemporary "autobiographical voices" as an ethnographical material, as constructions of self and community, as revelations of traditions, as recollections of disseminated identities, and as cultural criticism, see Michael M. J. Fischer, "Autobiographical Voices (1, 2, 3) and Mosaic Memory: Experimental Sondages in the (Post) Modern World," in Autobiography and Postmodernism, ed. Kathleen Ashley, Leigh Gilmore, and Gerald Peters (Amherst, Mass.: University of Massachusetts Press, 1994).
31. "Self-limiting radicalism" is used by Jean Cohen and Andrew Arato to define the pluralistic aspect of new Western social movements. Jean L. Cohen and Andrew Arato, Civil Society and Political Theory (Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1992), 493.
32. The article is published in the daily Islamic Yeni Safak, 28 June 1997. The author, Kenan Cayir, is my former student, who has written a masters thesis in our sociology department. Cf. Kenan Cayir, "Islamist Civil Associations: The Case of the Rainbow Istanbul Women's Platform," masters thesis, Bogazici University, Istanbul, 1997.
33. Touraine, Critique of Modernity.
34. Richard Sennett, Flesh and Stone: The Body and the City in Western Civilization (New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1994).