Performing Sufi living in contemporary Turkey

In 1925, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Turkish Republic, at the beginning of the Republican Era of Turkey, passed a series of decrees that prohibited the production and maintenance of Sufi lodges in Turkey and the practices of Sufi şeyhs and dervishes. This legal act was part of Atatürk’...

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Main Author: Çizmeci, Hasret Esra
Other Authors: Szeman-Ureche, Ioana ; Greenhalgh, Susanne
Published: University of Roehampton 2015
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.684979