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Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Aspects of religions (non-Christian) > Religious life & practice > General
Although Turkey is a secular state, it is often characterised as a
Muslim country. In her latest book, Lejla Voloder provides an
engaging and revealing study of a Bosniak community in Turkey, one
of the Muslim minorities actually recognised by the state in
Turkey. Under what circumstances have they resettled to Turkey? How
do they embrace Islam? How does one live as a Bosniak, a Turkish
citizen, a mother, a father, a member of a household, and as one
guided by Islam? The first book based on fieldwork to detail the
lives of members of the Bosnian and Bosniak diaspora in Turkey, A
Muslim Minority in Turkey makes a unique contribution to the study
of Muslim minority groups in Turkey and the Middle East.
Around 1900 the small Ethiopian community in Jerusalem found itself
in a desperate struggle with the Copts over the Dayr al-Sultan
monastery located on the roof of the Holy Sepulchre. Based on a
profoundly researched, impassioned and multifaceted exploration of
a forgotten manuscript, this book abandons the standard majority
discourse and approaches the history of Jerusalem through the lens
of a community typically considered marginal. It illuminates the
political, religious and diplomatic affairs that exercised the
city, and guides the reader on a fascinating journey from the
Ethiopian highlands to the Holy Sepulchre, passing through the
Ottoman palaces in Istanbul. Have a look inside the book
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