TY - BOOK AU - Vicini,Fabio TI - Reading Islam: life and politics of brotherhood in modern Turkey T2 - Social, economic and political studies of the Middle East and Asia, SN - 9004413758 AV - BP63.T82 I788 2020 U1 - 297.094961/8 23 PY - 2020///] CY - Leiden, Boston PB - Brill KW - Gülen Hizmet Movement KW - fast KW - Weşanên Nûbihar KW - Rêza Rîsaleyên Nur KW - Reading KW - Muslims KW - Turkey KW - Istanbul KW - Intellectual life KW - 21st century KW - Religious life KW - Islamic learning and scholarship KW - History KW - Islamic renewal KW - Islam and politics KW - Islam KW - Social aspects KW - Musulmans KW - Turquie KW - İstanbul KW - Vie intellectuelle KW - 21e siècle KW - Vie religieuse KW - Savoir et érudition KW - Histoire N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: Reading Islam in modern times -- Outreaches of religious service -- Living the brotherhood -- Reading, reflection and the search for transcendence -- Putting Islam to work -- Politics of brotherhood N2 - "In Reading Islam Fabio Vicini offers a journey within the intimate relations, reading practices, and forms of intellectual engagement that regulate Muslim life in two enclosed religious communities in Istanbul. Combining anthropological observation with textual and genealogical analysis, he illustrates how the modes of thought and social engagement promoted by these two communities are the outcome of complex intellectual entanglements with modern discourses about science, education, the self, and Muslims' place and responsibility in society. In this way, Reading Islam sheds light on the formation of new generations of faithful and socially active Muslims over the last thirty years and on their impact on the turn of Turkey from an assertive secularist Republic to an Islamic-oriented form of governance"-- UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2276951 ER -