Harmansah, Rabia 
ORCID: 0000-0002-2616-7859
(2022).
Fraternal Other: Negotiating Ethnic and Religious Identities at a Muslim Sacred Site in Northern Cyprus.
Natl. Pap., 50 (2).
S. 334 - 353.
NEW YORK:
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS.
ISSN 1465-3923
Abstract
This article shows how everyday religious practices inform the processes of social identification, complicate presumed ethno-religious categories, and mediate local cultural differences in face of political and cultural hegemonic practices. In the context of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, a de facto state recognized only by Turkey, Turkish Cypriots and Turks are considered to share an ethnicity and religion. This overlap has been employed to justify Turkey's military intervention and its political, economic, and cultural domination over the island. Yet the cultural diversities and perceived differences between and among these groups are exacerbated by power dynamics, nationalist agendas, and mutual biases. The article explains subtle discussions around genuine Turkish and Muslim identities, as well as the enforced coexistence and constructed brotherhood of Cypriots and Turks on the island. The competing accounts of the correct interpretation of Islam at a Muslim tekke reflect intragroup power asymmetries and the conflict between institutionalized Sunni-Orthodox and heterodox local Islam. The article focuses on two overlooked issues in the scholarship on Northern Cyprus-the relations between Turkish Cypriots and settlers from Turkey, and the role of religion in the political processes as well as on literature on shared sacred sites and an analysis of competitive intracommunal interactions.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-661745 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1017/nps.2020.102 | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Natl. Pap. | ||||||||
| Volume: | 50 | ||||||||
| Number: | 2 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | S. 334 - 353 | ||||||||
| Date: | 2022 | ||||||||
| Publisher: | CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS | ||||||||
| Place of Publication: | NEW YORK | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 1465-3923 | ||||||||
| Language: | English | ||||||||
| Faculty: | Unspecified | ||||||||
| Divisions: | Unspecified | ||||||||
| Subjects: | no entry | ||||||||
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| URI: | http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/66174 |
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