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Apr
21
2025

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

When: Monday, April 21, 2025
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM CT

Where: University Hall, 201, 1897 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 map it

Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students

Cost: 0

Contact: MENA  

Group: Middle East and North African Studies

Category: Lectures & Meetings, Academic, Social, Religious, Multicultural & Diversity, Global & Civic Engagement

Description:

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 Middel East Studies, "The Portrait of an Alla Franca Shaykh: Sufism, Modernity, and Class in Turkey".  Lunch will be served at this event.

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.  

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