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MENA Monday: The Portrait of an Alla Franca Shaykh: Sufism, Modernity, and Class in Turkey - Feyza Burak-Adli

Monday, April 28, 2025 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM CT
University Hall, 201, 1897 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 map it

Feyza Burak-Adli is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Anthropology at Northwestern University. She will give a presentation on her recent article in International Journal of Middle East Studies, "The Portrait of an Alla Franca Shaykh: Sufism, Modernity, and Class in Turkey." 

Feyza will illustrate the heterogeneity of Islamic publics in early 20th-century Turkey, by examining the life and thought of Ken'an Rifai, a Sufi shaykh and high-ranking bureaucrat in the Ottoman Empire. She will examine how Shaykh Rifai endorsed state secularization reforms on religious grounds, and how he imbricated Sufi ethics with other social imaginaries of the time.

Co-sponsored by Keyman Modern Turkish Studies. 

Lunch will be served at this event.

Audience

  • Faculty/Staff
  • Student
  • Public
  • Post Docs/Docs
  • Graduate Students

Contact

MENA  

mena@northwestern.edu

Interest

  • Academic (general)
  • Religious/Spiritual
  • Global/Multicultural
  • Community Engagement

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