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Islamic Studies

2015

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New Desires, New Selves: Sex, Love, And Piety Among Turkish Youth, Gul Ozyegin Jul 2015

New Desires, New Selves: Sex, Love, And Piety Among Turkish Youth, Gul Ozyegin

Gul Ozyegin

As Turkey pushes for its place in the global pecking order and embraces neoliberal capitalism, the nation has seen a period of unprecedented shifts in political, religious, and gender and sexual identities for its citizens. In New Desires, New Selves, Gul Ozyegin shows how this social transformation in Turkey is felt most strongly among its young people, eager to surrender to the seduction of sexual modernity, but also longing to remain attached to traditional social relations, identities and histories.          
 
Engaging a wide array of upwardly-mobile young adults at a major Turkish university, Ozyegin links the biographies of …

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Sex And The Shari’A: Defining Gender Norms And Sexual Deviancy In Shi’I Islam, Haider Ala Hamoudi Jan 2015

Sex And The Shari’A: Defining Gender Norms And Sexual Deviancy In Shi’I Islam, Haider Ala Hamoudi

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This paper demonstrates that modern authoritative jurists working within the Shi’i tradition have developed their rules respecting sex regulation to serve three primary commitments. The first of these is that there is an intense and near debilitating desire on the part of human beings generally, though mostly men, for a great deal of sex. This desire must be satisfied, but it also must be tightly controlled. This is because of the second commitment, which is that excessive licentiousness is a form of secular distraction from a believer’s central obligation to worship God. Finally, and perhaps the most interesting, is the …

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Ua12/2/2 2015 Talisman: Resurgence, Wku Student Affairs Jan 2015

Ua12/2/2 2015 Talisman: Resurgence, Wku Student Affairs

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2015 Talisman yearbook.

  • Osborne Sam. Into the Woods – Big To-Do Music & Arts Festival
  • Spalding, Shelley. The Outliers – Greeks
  • Badjie, Haddy. The Right to Live – Racism
  • Gibson, Helen. Net Worth – Soccer
  • Greer, John. Sustaining Seasons – Sustainability
  • Wegert, Sally. Bloom – Eva Ross
  • Cislo, Everett. Harvest – Hemp
  • Kolb, William. Preserve – John All
  • Voorhees, Jessica. Making Strides – Track & Field
  • Greer, John. The Science Guy – Bill Nye
  • Cole, Tanner. Lip Service – Rocky Horror Picture Show
  • Belknap, Abby. Race to the Senate
  • Gibson, Helen. Game of Loans – Student Financial Aid
  • Belknap, Abby. …

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