Visualizing Secularism and Religion: Egypt, Lebanon, Turkey, India

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Visualizing Secularism and Religion ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ Egypt, Lebanon, Turkey, India alev çinar, srirupa roy, and maha yahya, Editors The University of Michigan Press ✦ Ann Arbor Copyright © by the University of Michigan 2012 All rights reserved This book may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, including illustrations, in any form (beyond that copying permitted by Sections 107 and 108 of the U.S. Copyright Law and except by reviewers for the public press), without written permission from the publisher. Published in the United States of America by The University of Michigan Press Manufactured in the United States of America c Printed on acid-free paper 2015 2014 2013 2012 4 3 2 1 A CIP catalog record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Visualizing secularism and religion : Egypt, Lebanon, Turkey, India / Alev Cinar, Srirupa Roy, and Maha Yahya, editors. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 978-0-472-07118-0 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-472-02813-9 (e-book) 1. Secularism. 2. Religion and politics. 3. Religion. I. Cinar, Alev. II. Roy, Srirupa. III. Mahayudin Haji Yahaya. BL2747.8.V57 2012 322'.10956—dc23 2012000939 Acknowledgments This volume grew out of a conference and a multiyear research project that was funded by an international collaborative research grant from the Middle East and North Africa Program of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC). We would like to thank Seteney Shami for the encouragement and support she has extended throughout this process. We are grateful to the Center for Research on Transitional Societies at Bilkent University and its director Guliz Ger for their support in the preparation of the Public Spheres workshop that took place at Bilkent University , Ankara, Turkey on October 15–17, 2004. We also thank the American University of Beirut and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation for funding the conference on Visual Publicities in Beirut. The organization of the Visual Publicities conference could not have happened without the backing of Detan Bitar and the considerable efforts of the Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies (CAMES), in particular Nadia el Cheikh, John Meloy, and Aliya al Saidi. We would like to thank the participants at both the Bilkent Public Spheres workshop and Beirut Visual Publicities conference for their engagement and insights, as well as the two blind peer reviewers , for valuable comments on the ‹rst draft of the book. The collaborative research undertaken by Alev Çinar, Maha Yahya, and Srirupa Roy would not have been possible without the research assistance of Samar Rizkallah, Zeynep Inanc, and Gizem Zencirci. We are also grateful for the support and help that we received from Seckin Ozdamar, Okan Dogan, Sebnem Yardimci, Zeynep Inanc, and Murat Ardag in Bilkent University, and Tolga Karabulut at Izmir University of Economics, who put in many hours of hard work on various levels of this project. Finally, at the University of Michigan Press we are grateful for the support of Tom Dwyer and Alexa L. Ducsay, and for their patience and encouragement over the longue durée. ...