Subduing the Saints: State Control over Sufi Lodges in Late Ottoman and Modern Turkey
West Duke 101, Ahmadieh Family Conference Room Duke University, Durham, NCA lecture by Prof. Brett Wilson (CEU). Increasing state control over religious institutions has played a pivotal role in modernization projects in Turkey dating back to the early nineteenth century. In 1925, the Turkish state abolished Sufi orders (mystical brotherhoods) … Read more