Anti-Veiling Campaigns in the Muslim World

Anti-Veiling Campaigns in the Muslim World
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 350
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ISBN-10 : 9781134653058
ISBN-13 : 1134653050
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Book Synopsis Anti-Veiling Campaigns in the Muslim World by : Stephanie Cronin

Download or read book Anti-Veiling Campaigns in the Muslim World written by Stephanie Cronin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years bitter controversies have erupted across Europe and the Middle East about women’s veiling, and especially their wearing of the face-veil or niqab. Yet the deeper issues contained within these controversies – secularism versus religious belief, individual freedom versus social or family coercion, identity versus integration – are not new but are strikingly prefigured by earlier conflicts. This book examines the state-sponsored anti-veiling campaigns which swept across wide swathes of the Muslim world in the interwar period, especially in Turkey and the Balkans, Iran, Afghanistan and the Soviet republics of the Caucasus and Central Asia. It shows how veiling was officially discouraged and ridiculed as backward and, although it was rarely banned, veiling was politicized and turned into a rallying-point for a wider opposition. Asking a number of questions about this earlier anti-veiling discourse and the policies flowing from it, and the reactions which it provoked, the book illuminates and contextualizes contemporary debates about gender, Islam and modernism.


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