Beneath the Headscarf: A Modern Individual |
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| Authors: | ZEYNEP KARAHAN USLU |
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| Affiliation: | Professor at Istanbul Aydin University and the president of Turkey Research Center (TAM), is also a vice chairman of the PR department of the ruling Justice and Development Party. |
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| Abstract: | The drama between the secularist legacy of Ataturk and the popular surge of Islamist‐rooted politics continues in Turkey, centered on the debate over the headscarf. Is it a sign of religious reaction, or a sign of non‐Western modernization that will ensure higher education for Muslim women? We represent here all sides of the debate. Elsewhere in the Muslim world are the reformers and critics listening to each other, or impeding progress with a blame game? Europe's most controversial figures in this debate—Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Tariq Ramadan—engage here. |
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