Abstract
Two sufi women take part in activities related to sufism and create an
attraction point in the secular side in Turkey. The most striking point is
that both women do not wear headscarves although they are muslim
women. This article attempts to show how sufi women Cemalnur Sargut
and Hayatnur Artıran have idealized a Muslim woman's identity, the
work they are doing to achieve this ideal, their attidue toward Rebublic
values, and the effects of these attitudes on their followers. This article
was created from my doctoral thesis and based on Qualitative research
which has been established on the basis of 2-year long participant
observation and data obtained from in-depth and focus interviews. 31
women and 20 men were interviewed in depth and focus interviews. The
main conclusions of my qualitative research are that the influence of
theese sufi women is related with process of modernization by
accelerating the establishment of the republic in Turkey. It seems that a
perception has established concerning that “public apparency’’ of woman
will disappear if the “apparency of body’’ disappears and the woman will
return to its role which had relapsed into silence for centuries. Besides
not using the headscarf, religious conversation has been created by these
sufi women in the balance of religion, philosophy and science and the
fact that they are conducting their works under secular institutions such
as foundations and associations have also been observed to have a very
important effect on secular side.
Dr. Gözde Özelce. (2019) Female Sufi Leaders in Turkey: Signals of a New Social Pattern Emerging in Secular Side, Journal of Islamic Thought and Civilization, Volume IX, Issue 1.
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