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Tracing the centrality of women in the definition of Turkish secularism, this study investigates the 2003 decision to increase the number of women officers employed by the Presidency of Religious Affairs (Diyanet). It explores how, as professional religious officers, the female Diyanet preachers epitomize a pious, modern and highly educated woman whose role in society has been raised to prominence. Based on extensive fieldwork in Turkey, and drawing on a rich ethnography of the activities conducted by Diyanet women preachers in Istanbul, Chiara Maritato disentangles the state's attempt to standardize a multifaceted female religious participation. In using the feminization of the Diyanet as a prism through which to understand the significance of a renewed presence of Islam in the Turkish public realm, she casts light on a broader reformulation of religious services for women and families in Turkey, and pinpoints how this pervasive moral support has been able to penetrate and reshape even secular spaces.

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The acceptance of female leadership in mosques and madrassas is a significant change from much historical practice, signalling the mainstream acceptance of some form of female Islamic authority in many places. This volume investigates the diverse range of female religious leadership present in contemporary Muslim communities in South, East and Central Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, and North America, with chapters discussing its emergence, the limitations placed upon it, and its wider impact, as well as the physical and virtual spaces used by women to establish and consolidate their authority. It will be invaluable as a reference text, as it is the first to bring together analysis of female Islamic leadership in geographically and ideologically-diverse Muslim communities worldwide.

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Far from the media stereotypes maintaining the image of a legalistic and belligerent Islam, Islamic mysticism, true religion of love and desire practiced by the faithful in search of the divine, is characterized by a great diversity of cults. It is to a journey to the heart of the feminine expressions of this religious form in Algeria in the eighties that Sossie Andezian invites us with this work. In an original style combining emotional sensitivity and scientific rigor, slices of religious life captured live are delivered to us.Tearing the veil of a standardized Islam, the author reveals the variety of experiences of the divine in Islam, from meditation in silence to ecstatic dances, including all forms of prayers celebrating God and the intercessors of men with God (jinn, saints, prophets). The rituals are analyzed in the light of the changes that have occurred in Algerian society since Independence, in particular in the field of the relationships between rural and urban space, between women and men, between local religions and State religion. Living testimonies as well as descriptions of great finesse make the book attractive and accessible to the non-specialist.

Islam --- Muslim women --- Experience (Religion) --- Religious life --- Tlemcen (Algeria) --- Religious life and customs --- Experience (Religion). --- Mysticisme --- Saints musulmans --- Soufisme --- Femmes --- Vie religieuse --- Religion --- Philosophy & Religion --- Islam. --- Culte --- Vie religieuse. --- Religious life and customs. --- Religious experience --- Psychology, Religious --- Islamic women --- Women, Muslim --- Women --- Mohammedanism --- Muhammadanism --- Muslimism --- Mussulmanism --- Religions --- Muslims --- Tlemcen, Algeria --- Tlemsen (Algeria) --- Tilimsān (Algeria) --- Islam - Algeria - Tlemcen --- Muslim women - Religious life - Algeria - Tlemcen --- Tlemcen (Algeria) - Religious life and customs --- islamisme --- mysticisme (islam) --- Tlemcen --- sainteté (islam) --- Muslimahs --- Femmes dans l'islam --- Mystique --- Algérie --- Tilimsen (Algérie) --- Anthropologie --- 1970-2000

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From the publisher. Politics of Piety is a groundbreaking analysis of Islamist cultural politics through the ethnography of a thriving, grassroots women's piety movement in the mosques of Cairo, Egypt. Unlike those organized Islamist activities that seek to seize or transform the state, this is a moral reform movement whose orthodox practices are commonly viewed as inconsequential to Egypt's political landscape. Saba Mahmood's compelling exposition of these practices challenges this assumption by showing how the ethical and the political are indelibly linked within the context of such movements. Not only is this book a sensitive ethnography of a critical but largely ignored dimension of the Islamic revival, it is also an unflinching critique of the secular-liberal assumptions by which some people hold such movements to account. The book addresses three central questions: How do movements of moral reform help us rethink the normative liberal account of politics? How does the adherence of women to the patriarchal norms at the core of such movements parochialize key assumptions within feminist theory about freedom, agency, authority, and the human subject? How does a consideration of debates about embodied religious rituals among Islamists and their secular critics help us understand the conceptual relationship between bodily form and political imaginaries? Politics of Piety is essential reading for anyone interested in issues at the nexus of ethics and politics, embodiment and gender, and liberalism and postcolonialism. In a substantial new preface, Mahmood addresses the controversy sparked by the original publication of her book and the scholarly discussions that have ensued.

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