Nilüfer Göle
Encyclopedia
Nilüfer Göle is a prominent Turkish
French
sociologist and a leading authority on the political movement of today's educated, urbanized, religious Muslim
women. From 1986 to 2001 a professor at the Boğaziçi University
in Istanbul
, 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 gender
codes. Her sociological approach has also produced a broader critique of Eurocentrism
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.
Turkey
Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...
French
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
sociologist and a leading authority on the political movement of today's educated, urbanized, religious Muslim
Muslim
A Muslim, also spelled Moslem, is an adherent of Islam, a monotheistic, Abrahamic religion based on the Quran, which Muslims consider the verbatim word of God as revealed to prophet Muhammad. "Muslim" is the Arabic term for "submitter" .Muslims believe that God is one and incomparable...
women. From 1986 to 2001 a professor at the Boğaziçi University
Bogaziçi University
Boğaziçi University is a public university located on the European side of the Bosphorus strait in Istanbul, Turkey. It has five faculties and two schools offering undergraduate degrees, and six institutes offering graduate degrees...
in Istanbul
Istanbul
Istanbul , historically known as Byzantium and Constantinople , is the largest city of Turkey. Istanbul metropolitan province had 13.26 million people living in it as of December, 2010, which is 18% of Turkey's population and the 3rd largest metropolitan area in Europe after London and...
, she is currently Directrice d'études at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
The École des hautes études en sciences sociales is a leading French institution for research and higher education, a Grand Établissement. Its mission is research and research training in the social sciences, including the relationship these latter maintain with the natural and life sciences...
(EHESS), Centre d’Analyse et d’Intervention Sociologiques (CADIS), in Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
. 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 gender
Gender
Gender is a range of characteristics used to distinguish between males and females, particularly in the cases of men and women and the masculine and feminine attributes assigned to them. Depending on the context, the discriminating characteristics vary from sex to social role to gender identity...
codes. Her sociological approach has also produced a broader critique of Eurocentrism
Eurocentrism
Eurocentrism is the practice of viewing the world from a European perspective and with an implied belief, either consciously or subconsciously, in the preeminence of European culture...
with regard to emerging Islamic identities at the close of the twentieth century. She has explored the specific topic of covering
Covering
-Mathematics:*In topology:** Covering map, a function from one space to another with uniform local neighborhoods** Cover , a system of sets whose union is a given topological space...
, as well as the complexities of living in a multicultural world.
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).