Floating Sophia, Polarizing to Abeyance, Waqf-izing the State

Abstract The 2020 ‘mosque-ing’ of Ayasofya (Hagia Sophia) shook a cornerstone of the Turkish Republican tradition. I lay out the immediate political context, including the COVID -19 pandemic, the content of five court decisions that built up to the mosque-ing, and what these show about the current s...

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Main Author: Akan, Murat (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2021
In: Journal of Muslims in Europe
Year: 2021, Volume: 10, Issue: 2, Pages: 123-145
RelBib Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
BJ Islam
KBL Near East and North Africa
ZC Politics in general
Further subjects:B abeyance
B de-democratization
B Turkey
B Populism
B Multiple Modernities
B Hagia Sophia
B Secularism
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