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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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Salt Lake City :
The University of Utah Press,
[2018]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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.