土耳其洗浴文化

土耳其浴在土语里叫哈马姆,是一种传统的桑拿浴。土耳其人去哈马姆,就像中国人过去去泡澡堂子一样。初次体验土耳其浴是个非常愉快的过程,而洗完之后的感觉更是浑身清爽,难怪土耳其人会说,就算你不喜欢土耳其的风景,洗过一次土耳其浴的人也会爱上这个国家的。     

土耳其的美食文化

2010年金秋时节,我随《国际食品》代表团访问了土耳其首都安卡拉和历史名城伊斯坦布尔,考察土耳其的饮食文化和探索两国烹饪事业的合作途径。9天时间里,参观了这两个城市的7家著名餐馆和旅馆,还有学校、博物馆等一共13个单位,接触了不少烹饪专家、学者、名厨师和企业家,     

宁波民间艺术享誉土耳其

8月17目至30日,宁波民间艺术团一行35人受文化部指派,赴土耳其参加伊兹密尔国际文化节和库布克国际文化节。这是宁波文化首次代表中国出访,亮相国际舞台。在土耳其的15天里,宁波民间艺术团共进行了10多     

土耳其：泡在茶水里的国家

在我的脑海里,中国是世界上第一个茶叶大国,然而来到土耳其才知道,土耳其才是一个真正泡在茶水里的国家。根据最近调查结果,土耳其喝茶的人越来越多,而且发展势头迅猛,土耳其人的喝茶数量已位居世界第一,每人年     

Markets of Islam: performative charity and the Muslim middle classes in Turkey

ABSTRACT

This article examines the ways in which middle class Muslims in Turkey talk about Islamic ‘community’ and analyses these discourses in relation to the phenomenon of market Islam. The evidence is drawn from the author’s ethnographic fieldwork with donors, managers, and volunteers of a government friendly Islamic NGO, the Light House (Deniz Feneri Sosyal Yard?mla?ma ve Dayan??ma Derne?i) in 2009–2010, followed by subsequent trips in 2013 and 2015. I argue that Islamic charity is not merely a calculative economic behaviour or a reflection of deep-seated religious values, but rather a performative site of market Islam. In seeking to reconcile a faith-based understanding of charity with diverse interpretations of the neoliberal economy, I show that middle-class Muslims adhered to two discourses of ‘community’: whereas donors saw charitable giving as a market-enhancing mechanism, NGO managers defined their charitable work as part of an Islamic project focused on economic redistribution. Although they conceptualized the relationship between faith and markets in divergent ways, both discourses of market Islam posit ‘community’ as an intrinsic component of governing the poor in Turkey.