Abstract
Two sufi women take part in activities related to sufism and create an attraction point in the secular side in Turkey. The most striking point is that both women do not wear headscarves although they are muslim women. This article attempts to show how sufi women Cemalnur Sargut and Hayatnur Artiran have idealized a Muslim woman's identity, the work they are doing to achieve this ideal, their attidue toward Rebublic values, and the effects of these attitudes on their followers. This article was created from my doctoral thesis and based on Qualitative research which has been established on the basis of 2-year long participant observation and data obtained from in-depth and focus interviews. 31 women and 20 men were interviewed in depth and focus interviews. The main conclusions of my qualitative research are that the influence of theese sufi women is related with process of modernization by accelerating the establishment of the republic in Turkey. It seems that a perception has established concerning that “public apparency’’ of woman will disappear if the “apparency of body’’ disappears and the woman will return to its role which had relapsed into silence for centuries. Besides not using the headscarf, religious conversation has been created by these sufi women in the balance of religion, philosophy and science and the fact that they are conducting their works under secular institutions such as foundations and associations have also been observed to have a very important effect on secular side.
Highlights
In recent years, In Turkey, there has been a dramatically increase in the symposia and panels arranged on Sufism and it is observed that this is largely followed by the secular side of Turkey
Nur Artıran, reveal the signals of a new religious pattern in which the polarizing image of the distinction between Kemalist-religionist turned itself with their studies handled under the roof of Cultural Islam
This study trying to reveal what kind of a Muslim identity Sargut and Artıran idealizes, the studies they have conducted to realize this ideal and the impacts of these studies on the followers has both tried to reveal the reasons for the attraction by the secular environment to these two women Sufis and has tried to express the transformation it has undergone
Summary
In Turkey, there has been a dramatically increase in the symposia and panels arranged on Sufism and it is observed that this is largely followed by the secular side of Turkey. This increased interest is concentrated on two sufi women called sufi Cemalnur Sargut and Hayatnur Artıran. Sargut is from the Rifai order and the Artıran is from the Mevelevi order Both orders are focused on the deep meaning of Islam, not the shari‘ah aspect. Both sufi women emphasize the similarities instead of the differences among religions and underline the importance of religious and Islamic unity. There is a critical question can be asked: Why the secular women and men in Turkey prefer
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