Reading Islam

Acknowledgments

Note on Transliteration and Turkish Pronunciation

Introduction: Reading Islam in Modern Times

 1 Reading is Transcending

 2 Accommodating Modernity

 3 Thinking Islam

 4 A Revival of Muslim Civility

 5 Fieldwork in Two Concealed Communities

 6 Before and after July 15

 7 Outline of the Book

1 Outreaches of Religious Service

 1 Reading the Risale

 2 Reforming Society through Educational Service

 3 From Hizmet to Individual Duty

 4 Modernity and the Displacement of Islamic Ethics

 5 The Islamic Revival, Urban Life and Community

2 Living the Brotherhood

 1 Daily Life in the Houses

 2 Discipline and Prayer

 3 Time and Prayer

 4 Living by Example

 5 Brotherhood between Pedagogy and Authority

 6 Brotherhood between Civility and Corporate Personality

 7 Virtues of Mutuality

 8 Living Sincerity

3 Reading, Reflection and the Search for Transcendence

 1 Appealing to the Imagination

 2 Iterative Reading

 3 Reading as Cultural Practice

 4 Genealogies of Reflection

 5 Toward a Sufi Cosmology

 6 Reflecting on Death

4 Putting Islam to Work

 1 Education, the Nation and the Islamic “Ethos”

 2 Accessing Quality Education

 3 Modern Times, Docile Methods

 4 From Jihad to Reforming Society

 5 Life and Tutoring in the Gülen Housings

 6 Romanticizing Prophethood

 7 Learning by Example

 8 Embodying Responsibility

5 Politics of Brotherhood

 1 “You’ll Be of Service to This Country”

 2 The Nur Self’s Spaces of Will and Freedom

 3 The Relativity of the Good: On the Modern Liberal Conception of the Self

 4 Being an Aware and Responsible Muslim

 5 On Brotherhood and Moral Reasoning

Conclusion

References

Index