Nilüfer Göle
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Nilüfer Göle (born 1953) is a Turkish sociologist and a contemporary Turkish academic who specializes in the political movement of today's educated, urbanized, and religious Muslim women. She is the daughter of Turgut Göle, a politician from the
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. From 1986 to 2001 a professor at the Boğaziçi University in
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, she is currently Directrice d'études at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), Centre d’Analyse et d’Intervention Sociologiques (CADIS), in Paris. Göle is the author of ''Interpénétrations: L’Islam et l’Europe'' and ''The Forbidden Modern: Civilization and Veiling''. Through personal interviews, Göle has developed detailed case studies of young Turkish women who are turning to the tenets of fundamental Islamic
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codes. Her sociological approach, which is underpinned with Socialist and Marxist ideology, has also produced a broader critique of
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with regard to emerging Islamic identities at the close of the twentieth century. She has explored the specific topic of covering, as well as the complexities of living in a multicultural world. She holds French citizenship.


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Selected publications

* ''Interpénétrations: L’Islam et l’Europe''. (Paris: Galaade Editions, 2005). * “Islamisme et féminisme en Turquie: regards croisés,” in ''Le foulard islamique en questions'' (Paris: Éditions Amsterdam, 2004). * Ed. with Ludwig Ammann, ''Islam in Sicht. Der Auftritt von Muslimen im öffentlichen Raum''. (Bielefeld: Transcript-Verlag, 2004). * ''The Forbidden Modern: Civilization and Veiling''. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997).


Further reading


PBS Interview with Nilüfer Göle


External links


At Centre d'Analyse et d'Intervention SociologiquesCourses taught by Göle at EHESS (2009-2010)
1953 births Living people People from Ankara Naturalized citizens of France French people of Turkish descent Turkish non-fiction writers Turkish sociologists Sociologists of religion Academic staff of Boğaziçi University Turkish women writers Members of the Turkish Academy of Sciences {{reli-sociologist-stub