Anti-Veiling Campaigns in the Muslim World

Name: Anti-Veiling Campaigns in the Muslim World
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Gender, Modernism and the Politics of Dress

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Durham Modern Middle East and Islamic World Series

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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.

Author Biography:

Stephanie Cronin is a Lecturer in Iranian History at the University of Oxford, UK.

Release date Australia

April 24th, 2016

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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
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Edited by Stephanie Cronin

Illustrations

12 Halftones, black and white; 12 Illustrations, black and white

Pages

288

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Durham Modern Middle East and Islamic World Series

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9781138687202

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24784371

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