If the state is going to enforce any principle from Islamic sources, according to Abdullahi An-Na‘im, then it should implement…
An Islamic case for a secular state
women’s rights
The headscarf and citizenship in Turkey
In Turkey, the headscarf is usually taken as an emblem of tradition and backwardness, and its removal from public life…
The headscarf controversy
The analysis of the headscarf controversy cannot simply be based on arguments of liberal politics. Rather, it has to be…
A headscarf affair, a women’s affair?
Women who are proponents of the headscarf distance themselves from secular models of feminist emancipation, but also seek autonomy from…
New freedoms in Turkey — for whom?
Turkey’s ban of the headscarf on university campuses -- rather than the headscarf itself -- has become a serious impediment…
Gender equality and Islamic headscarves
In Turkey there is now a great deal of controversy about proposed revisions to the constitution that would include lifting…