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Tag Archives: modernity
Modern Muslim Reformers: Comparing Malala Yousafzai and Maajid Nawaz
by Gaetano Martell0 The subject of Islam’s role in the world is dense and rife with misinformation. It is not uncommon to see media portrayals and depictions of Muslims that use stereotypes to define them and promote a monolithic view … Continue reading
The Need for Equality Addressed: Muslim Women in India
by Maddy Gale What it means to be a Muslim in India has always been culturally and politically separate from the notion of the modern “Muslim World.” The “Muslim World” is a proposed geopolitical term used to homogenize and categorize … Continue reading
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Tagged Colonialism, family law, gender, Hinduism, Indian Muslims, Islamic Feminism, modernity, nikahnama, women's rights
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Modern Turkey: Islams Stifled
Turkey is a bridge between Europe and Asia, but bridges are only necessary to patch divides and tears (Göl, 796), which are very prominent in Turkish society, as is made apparent by the difference between that which the Turkish people … Continue reading
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Tagged censorship, incarceration, Islam, modernity, muslim, oppression, secularism, Turkey
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Turkey: Can a Unique Democracy be Accepted?
According to Charles Kurzman secularism is a “concept in many Muslim communities, where it is associated with atheism and Western cultural imperialism” (Kurzman, 615). Kurzman summarizes the idea present amongst Muslims that secularism as a uniquely European ideology that has come … Continue reading
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Tagged Identity, modernity, secularism, the west, Turkey, Turkish secularism
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To Veil or no to Veil—Iranian Women’s Interaction with Modernity
Iran, one of the most powerful Islamic countries in the world, is highly affected by Western domination. It influences people’s daily life, their culture’s customs, and people’s ways of thinking; Majeed describes it as modernization (2004). I lacked knowledge about … Continue reading
The Failure of the AKP
The question of whether or not religion and democracy can coexist on a secular plane without infringing on the natural rights of the public has been a main source of contention for the modern world. The AK Party (Adalet ve … Continue reading
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Tagged AKP, modernity, secularism, Turkey, Turkish secularism
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Muslim Women’s Fight for Equality
The media-driven view of Islam in the Western world is full of stereotypes, false information, and misunderstandings of the religion and what its practitioners believe. One of the most prevalent views is that all Muslim women are oppressed, and the … Continue reading
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Tagged gender, India, Islam, modernity, stereotypes, study of religion, Turkey, veiling, Visual Representations
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Getting to Modernity: Religious Reform in Iran
The Iranian Revolution cannot be viewed as the starting point for modern Islamic reform in Iran. It should instead be looked at as a stage of reform that exists within a much larger cycle of modernist, secular, and fundamentalist reform … Continue reading
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Tagged Iran, Iranian Revolution, Islam, modernity, Shabestari, Shariati, Soroush
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Turkish Modernity and Gender
Turkish modernity is neither religious nor secular. Pinar Ilkkaracan’s work is an example of the actualization of this complicated dichotomy shown through the actions of both the Turkish government and its citizens. Pinar Ilkkaracan is one of Turkey’s leading activists … Continue reading
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Tagged AKP, modernity, Turkey, Turkish secularism, women's rights
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21st Century Orientalism in Iran and the United States
Seeing the movie Persepolis in the sixth grade was one of the first truly globalizing moments of my life. Up until that point Iran, and the entire Middle East really, was in my narrow perception simply a land of conflict … Continue reading
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Tagged Imperialism, Iran, Islam, modernity, Persepolis, Politics, Power, USA
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