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Subduing the Saints: State Control over Sufi Lodges in Late Ottoman and Modern Turkey

West Duke 101, Ahmadieh Family Conference Room Duke University, Durham, NC

A 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