{"title":"Performing Vision","authors":"W. Shaw","doi":"10.1515/transcript.9783839421765.203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/transcript.9783839421765.203","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":433704,"journal":{"name":"Islam and the Politics of Culture in Europe","volume":"225 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115556632","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Veiled Bodies, Vile Speech","authors":"Maha El Hissy","doi":"10.1515/transcript.9783839421765.127","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/transcript.9783839421765.127","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":433704,"journal":{"name":"Islam and the Politics of Culture in Europe","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125865316","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Inhalt","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/transcript.9783839421765.toc","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/transcript.9783839421765.toc","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":433704,"journal":{"name":"Islam and the Politics of Culture in Europe","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129947814","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Istanbul’s Multiculturalism Reimagined in Contemporary British Fiction","authors":"Nagihan Haliloğlu","doi":"10.14361/transcript.9783839421765.61","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14361/transcript.9783839421765.61","url":null,"abstract":"Any discussion of multiculturalism needs to take into account the fact that the word simultaneously means two related concepts of different register: as Kenan Malik points out, “the lived experience of diversity” and “manag[ing] diversity” (Malik, 2012). More and more, multiculturalism rears its head in public discourse as the management of different cultures living together, a political process which has been declared dead many times over in Europe. The proponents of multiculturalism, those who consider it more as ‘the lived experience’ and don’t want to let go of it simply because the political processes have failed, look further afield, to see in what kind of spaces a functioning multiculturalism was/is made possible. The need to discover ‘multiculturalism elsewhere’ is reflected in the popularity of both non-European books that deal with cultural diversity, and European writers’ own efforts to imagine multiculturalisms that are lived outside and/or on the margins of Europe. This explains the popularity of writers such as Alaa al Aswany in Cairo, Elif Shafak and Orhan Pamuk in Istanbul, as they write about the multicultural past and present of these cities. In this study I will look at two British efforts at trying to (re)locate multiculturalism in Istanbul, in Jason Goodwin’s The Janissary Tree (2007) and Barbara Nadel’s Passion for Killing (2007). I will start by situating Turkey historically within multiculturalism debates and then examine how in fiction Istanbul is re-imagined as an ersatz setting where one can observe how cultural diversity operates in different historical and geographical contexts. This instrumentalization of Istanbul, I argue, is a means of rapprochement between Europe and Turkey in Turkey’s bid to be a part of the European community. Construction of a future together requires a reconstruction of the past, and I suggest that this is what these books set in Istanbul are working towards. These British novels that re-imagine the Ottoman past also reveal Britain’s and by extension Europe’s strained relationship with the legacy of the Ottoman Empire. Politicians and writers make much of Istanbul’s heritage of cultural diversity and claim, emboldened by theorists of multiculturalism such as Chandra Kukathas and Will Kymlicka, that the Ottoman past can provide lessons in multiculturalism that Europe can learn from today. In contemporary political discussions, multiculturalism as a problem engendered and contained by the nation-state is discussed with reference to the millet system, which is perceived as the Ottoman state tool developed to organize the multicultural society of the Ottoman Empire. 1 Notwithstanding the detractors of the idea that the millet system was a full fledged apparatus with an easily identifiable structure (Braude, 1982), from Kukathas’ description of ‘imperial state that does not seek integration of the diverse peoples’ to Kymlicka’s ‘non-liberal religious tolerance’ (1995, p. 155), Ottoman multicultural","PeriodicalId":433704,"journal":{"name":"Islam and the Politics of Culture in Europe","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126295187","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Confronting Images, Confronted Images","authors":"Valerie Gonzalez","doi":"10.1515/transcript.9783839421765.219","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/transcript.9783839421765.219","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":433704,"journal":{"name":"Islam and the Politics of Culture in Europe","volume":"6 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120995154","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fun and Faith, Music and Muslimness","authors":"M. Gazzah","doi":"10.1515/transcript.9783839421765.187","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/transcript.9783839421765.187","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":433704,"journal":{"name":"Islam and the Politics of Culture in Europe","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127786509","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From Haptic to Optical, Performance to Figuration","authors":"Laura U. Marks","doi":"10.1515/transcript.9783839421765.237","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/transcript.9783839421765.237","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":433704,"journal":{"name":"Islam and the Politics of Culture in Europe","volume":"104 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133593509","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction: Islam and the Politics of Culture in Europe","authors":"F. Peter, Sarah Dornhof, E. Arigita","doi":"10.1515/transcript.9783839421765.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/transcript.9783839421765.9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":433704,"journal":{"name":"Islam and the Politics of Culture in Europe","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127856470","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On Tattoos and other Bodily Inscriptions","authors":"D. Tyrer","doi":"10.1515/transcript.9783839421765.143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/transcript.9783839421765.143","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":433704,"journal":{"name":"Islam and the Politics of Culture in Europe","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116484214","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Seeing Difference, Seeing Differently","authors":"Sarah Dornhof","doi":"10.14361/TRANSCRIPT.9783839421765.163","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14361/TRANSCRIPT.9783839421765.163","url":null,"abstract":"Culture is a constant reference in debates surrounding Islam in Europe. Yet the notion of culture is commonly restricted to conceptual frames of multiculturalism where it relates to group identities, collective ways of life and recognition. This volume extends such analysis of culture by approaching it as semiotic practice which conjoins the making of subjects with the configuration of the social. Examining fields such as memory, literature, film, and Islamic art, the studies explore culture as another element in the assemblage of rationalities governing European Islam. From this perspective, the transformations of European identities can be understood as a matter of cultural practice and politics, which extend the analytical frames of political philosophy, historical legacies, normative orders and social dynamics.","PeriodicalId":433704,"journal":{"name":"Islam and the Politics of Culture in Europe","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122182190","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}