April 29, 2020
This article was written in 2012. Now I want to post it on my blog page. It is also available online at GW Post but it is hard to find and get Access; so I put it here as some sort of archieve practice 🙂 In my country, while discussing daily political and… » read more
Posted by Begum Burak
April 17, 2020
This blog article was firstly published in early 2012 when I was a PhD candidate. My academic interests dont cover the issues of religious liberty or Islam in general. However, I had written it to attempt to remove some biased views about Islam among foreign students / my peers (generally they were my audience on… » read more
Posted by Begum Burak
November 16, 2019
NATION-BUILDING: HOMOGENIZATION POLICIES AND DYNAMICS¨ Almost every nation-state since their inception has had some kind of an ‘imagined’ desired citizen profile. This concept of desired citizen has its constitutive others too. Thus, while on the one hand nation-state endeavors to construct desired citizenship; on the other hand and simultaneously, it tries to assimilate or dissimilate… » read more
Posted by Begum Burak
September 4, 2019
Today my blog piece is again about an article. The article is written by Ahmet Öncü and Gürcan Koçan with the name “Citizen Alevi in Turkey: Beyond Confirmation and Denial”. Here are some important points covered in the article: Understood as one “imagined” homogeneous socio-cultural-political whole (Gellner, 1997; Anderson, 1991),… » read more
Posted by Begum Burak
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EurActiv.com, History, InfoSociety, Languages & Culture, Religion |
March 18, 2019
The reactions against the terrorist attack in New Zealand are going on around the world. I think everyone Muslim or not or even disbeliever should raise her voice against this horrible attack. 50 people passed away in New Zealand during prayer. This is not the first terrorist attack against Muslims but it is quite… » read more
Posted by Begum Burak
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Current news, Global Europe, Islam, Media, Religion , Europe, Extremism, Fascism, Islamophobia, Terror |
December 17, 2018
Today is the 745th death anniversary of Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi. Every year, an international commemoration ceremony marking the anniversary of Rumi’s union with God is held in Konya between December 7 and17. What Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi tells us through centuries is first and foremost tolerance and love When we use or hear the… » read more
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Current news, EurActiv.com, History, Languages & Culture, Religion, Turkey , Rumi |
November 28, 2018
A few days ago, one of the popular celebrities, namely Gamze Özçelik (born in 1982) was spotted wearing a headscarf. For a few days, Gamze Özçelik and her headscarf have been one of the hotly-debated issues on TV shows and programmes. I prefer to use the term “headscarf” instead of “turban” because in my… » read more
Posted by Begum Burak
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Democracy Theory, EurActiv.com, History, InfoSociety, Political Sociology, Religion, Secularism, Turkey, Uncategorized |
November 14, 2018
Yesterday was the anniversary of the Sufi scholar Mehmet Zahid Kotku’s death. Mehmet Zahid Kotku, one of the most influential Islamic scholars died on November 13 in 1980. His surname meaning “humble” can be seen as the summary of his life battle. Mehmet Zahid Kotku was born in Bursa and lost his mother at the… » read more
Posted by Begum Burak
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