Secularizing the Unsecularizable

Harmanşah, Rabia; Tanyeri‐Erdemir, Tuğba; Hayden, Robert M.

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“…Robert M. Hayden’s theoretical model of Antagonistic Tolerance (AT) 2 explains situations in which two communities distinguish themselves as Self and Other, primarily on the basis of differing religions, and predicts long periods of relatively peaceful interactions, interspersed with periods of violence when dominance is challenged. Using the AT model, we have shown elsewhere (Harmanşah et al 2014, 337) how the state in Turkey claims the right to regulate religious beliefs and actions through museumification of key religious sites and explicitly favors Sunni practices while tacitly obstructing Alevi-Bektasi practices, even if it claims to tolerate other faiths as a secular state. In the case under study here, although I examined intracommunal 3 interactions, in which conflict is less conspicuous compared to intercommunal ones, I observed manifestations of similar patterns of competition and attempts to redefine the boundaries of the sacred.…”

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“Fraternal” Other: Negotiating Ethnic and Religious Identities at a Muslim Sacred Site in Northern Cyprus

Harmanşah

2021

Nationalities Papers

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This article shows how everyday religious practices inform the processes of social identification, complicate presumed ethno-religious categories, and mediate local cultural differences in face of political and cultural hegemonic practices. In the context of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, a de facto state recognized only by Turkey, Turkish Cypriots and Turks are considered to share an ethnicity and religion. This “overlap” has been employed to justify Turkey’s military intervention and its political, economic, and cultural domination over the island. Yet the cultural diversities and “perceived” differences between and among these groups are exacerbated by power dynamics, nationalist agendas, and mutual biases. The article explains subtle discussions around “genuine” Turkish and Muslim identities, as well as the enforced coexistence and constructed brotherhood of Cypriots and Turks on the island. The competing accounts of the “correct” interpretation of Islam at a Muslim tekke reflect intragroup power asymmetries and the conflict between institutionalized Sunni-Orthodox and “heterodox” local Islam. The article focuses on two overlooked issues in the scholarship on Northern Cyprus—the relations between Turkish Cypriots and settlers from Turkey, and the role of religion in the political processes—as well as on literature on shared sacred sites and an analysis of competitive intracommunal interactions.

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“Fraternal” Other: Negotiating Ethnic and Religious Identities at a Muslim Sacred Site in Northern Cyprus

Harmanşah

2021

Nationalities Papers

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“…Meanwhile, the Albanian communist regime initially suppressed Islam, and in 1967 its leader, Enver Hoxa, outlawed all religions. Unlike other dervish orders, the history of Bektashism in the Balkans and Anatolia has been well-documented (e.g., Birge 1937; Harmanșah, Tanyeri-Erdemir, and Hayden 2014; Hasluck 1913–1914; Norris 2006; Trimingham 1971; Trix 2009).…”

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Crossing the Bosphorus: Connected Histories of “Other” Muslims in the Post-Imperial Borderlands of Southeast Europe

Henig

2016

Comp Stud Soc Hist

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Situated in the borderlands of Southeast Europe, this essay explores how enduring patterns of transregional circulation and cosmopolitan sensibility unfold in the lives of dervish brotherhoods in the post-Cold War present. Following recent debates on connected histories in post-colonial studies and historical anthropology, long-standing mobile and circulating societies, and reinvigorated interest in empire, this essay focuses ethnographically on how members of a dervish brotherhood in BosniaHerzegovina cultivate relations with places, collectivities, and practices that exist on different temporal, spatial and geopolitical scales. These connections are centered around three modes of articulation -sonic, graphic, and genealogical -through which the dervish disciples imagine and realize transregional relations. This essay begins and concludes with a meditation on the need for a dialogue between ethnography and transregional history in order to appreciate modes of identification and imagination that go beyond the essentialising forms of collective identity that, in the post-imperial epoch, have been dominated by political and methodological nationalism.

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Contesting the Byzantine Past: Four Hagia Sophias as Ideological Battlegrounds of Architectural Conservation in Turkey

Aykaç

2018

Heritage & Society

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Secularizing the Unsecularizable

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“Fraternal” Other: Negotiating Ethnic and Religious Identities at a Muslim Sacred Site in Northern Cyprus

“Fraternal” Other: Negotiating Ethnic and Religious Identities at a Muslim Sacred Site in Northern Cyprus

Crossing the Bosphorus: Connected Histories of “Other” Muslims in the Post-Imperial Borderlands of Southeast Europe

Contesting the Byzantine Past: Four Hagia Sophias as Ideological Battlegrounds of Architectural Conservation in Turkey

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