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The orthodoxization of ritual practice in western Anatoliaarticle 2009 • Hart, Kimberley
Turks • Middle East > Middle East
The author discusses the changes in marriage rituals from a traditional form that involved dance ([n]davul[/n]) and music, particularly drumming ([n]zurna[/n]), to one only using religious form of prayer ([n]melvut[n/]). She explains the change, on o...Love by arrangementarticle 2007 • Hart, Kimberley
Turks • Middle East > Middle East
In this article the author discusses changes in arranged marriages, which partly accommodates the romance of a modern style love match by allowing love to develop and be expressed during the engagement period....Performing piety and Islamic modernity in a Turkish villagearticle 2007 • Hart, Kimberley
Turks • Middle East > Middle East
This article is another example illustrating the author's thesis of the dual nature--secular and sacred--of Turkish modernity (see documents nos. 21 and 22.) In this case, the author examines the religious practice of good deeds ([n]hayır[/n]) which ...