The location of Islam: Inhabiting Istanbul in a Muslim way

Henkel, Heiko

doi:10.1525/ae.2007.34.1.57

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“…The term Bdiscursive tradition^has allowed some scholars, including Mahmood, to delve into the contemplative, intersubjective, and introspective aspects of Islam and how these play out in the everyday lives of Muslims (Deeb 2006;Henkel 2007;Hirschkind 2006;Mahmood 2005). In her recent work on the Islamic ethics of giving, Amira Mittermaier (2014) says that approaching Islam as a discursive tradition is essential but still limited in understanding contemporary forms of religious subjectivities.…”

Section: Women's Political Agency During Islamic Revivalismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Revisited: Muslim Women’s agency and feminist anthropology of the Middle East

Sehlikoglu

2017

Cont Islam

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This article locates imaginative aspects of human subjectivity as a feminist issue by reviewing the concept of agency in the genealogy of Muslim and Middle Eastern women in anthropological and ethnographic literature. It suggests that, if feminist scholarship of the Middle East would continue approaching to Muslim women's agency -as it has been doing for decades-, it should do so as an epistemological question and thus expand the limits of ethnographic and analytical focus beyond the broader systems, such as family, nation, religion, and state. As an example to this proposition, the article then discusses the recent work on aspects of selfhood that escape from the structures, rules, systems, and discursive limits of life but captures imaginations, aspirations, desires, yearnings, and longings.Keywords Agency . Muslim women . Anthropology of the Middle East . Desire . Feminist theory Women's Agency in Anthropology of the Middle EastIt would be reasonable to suggest that women's agency has been the primary focus in the anthropology of the Middle East since feminist anthropologists have entered into the area studies in late 1960s. Like much early feminist scholarship, the feminist anthropology of the Middle East also took a critical distance to the former scholarship and its Bmale bias^ (Reiter 1975, Moore 1988. As I discuss in following pages more extensively, the particular type of Cont Islam (2018) 12:73-92

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Section: Women's Political Agency During Islamic Revivalismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Revisited: Muslim Women’s agency and feminist anthropology of the Middle East

Sehlikoglu

2017

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“…In what follows, I build on emergent anthropological approaches that understand the house as dynamic, and its boundaries as provisional and processual (Allerton ; Ingold ; Carsten and Hugh‐Jones ). I bring this literature into conversation with recent, practice‐centered approaches to urbanization in the Islamic world that consider place as productive, and not merely reflective, of social and gendered difference (Deeb and Harb ; Walton ; Tuğal ; Henkel ; Göle ). I argue that in Urfa, the house does not instantiate an essential or binary divide between inside and outside, any more than it reflects an essential or binary divide between women and men.…”

Section: The “Place” Of Women and The Pace Of Modernizing Changementioning

confidence: 99%

The House Unbound: Refiguring Gender and Domestic Boundaries in Urbanizing Southeast Turkey

Purcell

2017

City & Society

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In the modern Middle East, proponents of economic development often mobilize the "place" of women as an index of a country or region's modernization. In contemporary southeastern Turkey, for instance, state-led urbanization is driven and justified by the claim that women in cities are free to participate in public life, whereas women in villages are "confined to the home." This paper challenges that narrative by querying the figure of confinement to the home. I begin by exploring the social scientific convention that takes the boundary of the house (inside/outside, private/public, female/ male) as a stable axis of comparison across time and space. Then, drawing on my fieldwork in the city of Urfa in southeastern Turkey, I track how the inside/outside boundary is phenomenally and differentially instantiated in three types of homevillage, urban, and peri-urban. I argue that, in Urfa, the notion of a bounded home arises only in the context of urbanization, as an emergent middle class moves into modern apartment buildings, setting themselves apart from villagers and migrants both socially and spatially. Here, "confinement to the home," far from a mark of backwardness, is for local women a badge of middle-class respectability. I thus show how the question of domestic boundaries, far more than a developmental or scholarly preoccupation, acts as an important means of self-positioning and social differentiation in a multi

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“…Talal Asad's paper 'The Idea of an Anthropology of Islam' was an important contribution to this effort, which established the concept of discourse as a central term for analysis. The efforts of Muslims to fashion themselves as authentic Muslim subjects in complex, modern settings, where multiple Muslim and secular identities circulate, have been examined, for example, in the context of individual choices over body-covering (Brenner 1996;Werbner 2005), or the ordering of public and private space (Henkel 2007). .…”

Section: Intelligibility and Traditionmentioning

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Articulating Islam: Anthropological Approaches to Muslim Worlds

Марсден¹,

Retsikas²

2013

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The location of Islam: Inhabiting Istanbul in a Muslim way

Cited by 32 publications

References 12 publications

Revisited: Muslim Women’s agency and feminist anthropology of the Middle East

Revisited: Muslim Women’s agency and feminist anthropology of the Middle East

The House Unbound: Refiguring Gender and Domestic Boundaries in Urbanizing Southeast Turkey

Articulating Islam: Anthropological Approaches to Muslim Worlds

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