Muslim Lives in Eastern Europe: Gender, Ethnicity, and the Transformation of Islam in Postsocialist Bulgaria

(Part of the Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics Series)

by Kristen R. Ghodsee

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Muslim Lives in Eastern Europe examines how gender identities were reconfigured in a Bulgarian Muslim community following the demise of Communism and an influx of international aid from the Islamic world. Kristen Ghodsee conducted extensive ethnographic research among a small population of Pomaks, Slavic Muslims living in the remote mountains of southern Bulgaria. After Communism fell in 1989, Muslim minorities in Bulgaria sought to rediscover...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0691139555

ISBN13:9780691139555

Release Date:August 2009

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:280 Pages

Weight:1.05 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"

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Anthropology Bulgaria Cultural Europe Gender Studies History Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences

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Muslim Lives in Eastern Europe: Gender, Ethnicity, and the Transformation of Islam in Postsocialist Bulgaria

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