Piety in a Niqab: A Lens Held over the Women of İsmailağa Jammah
It is very likely that women’s lives in black seem primitive, traditional, and subordinated to the researchers who observe them. However, in reality, the actors in such societies tell a different story, as this book shows. Women who wear the burqa build their identities on ideal resources, the Qur’an and sunnah, and in this way, achieve real peace and are privileged to easily pass religious examinations with the help of the sheik of their community. They have protective husbands who keep them from being contaminated by this dirty world, and homes that they manage with abundance. This approach brings them happiness in this world and salvation in the afterlife.
Fatma Zehra Fidan received a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology from Ege University, Turkey, before completing a Master’s degree at Muğla University, Turkey. She obtained her PhD from the Faculty of Theology of Dokuz Eylül University, Turkey. She continues to shed light on women’s experiences from different perspectives throughout her studies. Her novels include Beni Affeder misin Sevgili [Will You Forgive Me Dear?], Fatima, Aşk Var mıydı Sahi [Did Love Really Exist?], Hayallerim Babam ve Ben [My Dreams, My Father and Me], and Salkım Söğüt [Weeping Willow]. Her publications also include Modernlik ve Dindarlık Arasında Kadın [Woman between Modernity and Piety] (2015), Kadın Bedeni ve İstismarı [The Female Body and its Exploitation] (with Duygu Alptekin, 2015), and Yoksulluk Kıskacında Kadın [Woman in the Pincers of Poverty] (2016).
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