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Humanist mystics : nationalism and the commemoration of saints in Turkey /

"When the Ottoman Empire met its demise in the early twentieth century, the new republic closed down the Sufi orders, with the rationale that they were anti-modern. Yet the nascent nation, faced with defining its cultural heritage, soon began to emphasize the Turkish ethnicity of the Sufi saint...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Soileau, Mark (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, [2018]
Colección:Utah series in Middle East studies
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue: Shape-shifting saints
  • Commemoration, saints, and nationalization
  • Nationalism, secularism, and the rise of humanist mystics
  • Our master : memories of Mevlana Celaleddin Rumi
  • The fountainhead : memories of Hacı Bektaş Veli
  • Our Yunus : memories of Yunus Emre
  • Epilogue: Saint-shaping shifts.