1st Edition
Islamic Conversation Sohbet and Ethics in Contemporary Turkey
Introduction: Art of Ethical Conversation in Turkey
1. Reading the Risale-Nur in a Women's Sohbet
2. The "Modernity" of Zakat in Turkey
3. Healing the Social Body: Sohbet with Ankara’s Alevi Saint
4. Art of Dreaming: At the Tombs of Saints
5. Discourse in the Dorms
6. On Places of Worship and Diyanet
Biography
Smita Tewari Jassal has just completed a tenure as Professor of Sociology in Ambedkar University, Delhi where she taught gender, theories and methods in social anthropology, culture, and courses on India. From September 2019, she will resume teaching in the Sociology Department at the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey. Her research interests include marginality, gender, religion, rural transformations, caste, collective memory, and cultural production. She has authored Unearthing Gender: Folksongs of North India (2012) and Daughters of the Earth: Women and Land in Uttar Pradesh (2001), and co-edited New Perspectives on India and Turkey: Connections and Debates (2017) and The Partition Motif in Contemporary Conflicts (2006).
