Bahçeci, Sergen (2024) Exiles of the spiritual: secularization and the marginalization of oneiric imaginaries among Turkish Cypriots. History and Anthropology. ISSN 0275-7206
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This paper focuses on the conflict between a Naqshbandi-Sufi sheikh and Turkish Cypriot secularists in the middle of the twentieth century to historically trace the formations of a Muslim and secular social identity on the periphery of the Balkans-to-Bengal complex. The conflict particularly concerned a millenarian dream where the sheikh reportedly envisioned a major catastrophe would strike Cyprus and that he was tasked with leading Cypriot Muslims away to Syria. By providing a detailed historical account of this conflict, as well as of its aftermath by using contemporary ethnographic material from a Turkish Cypriot village, I show how the ‘structure of the conjuncture’ in Cyprus in mid-twentieth century produced a secular and Muslim social identity by exiling ‘the spiritual’ (manevi) to the margins of salient local political imaginaries and everyday Islamic praxes.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | © 2024 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. |
| Divisions: | Anthropology |
| Subjects: | D History General and Old World G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GN Anthropology |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Dec 2024 12:30 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Dec 2024 09:00 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/126494 |
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