Laurent Mignon
Biographic Data
| ID | 304126 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laurent Mignon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laurent |
| FAMILY NAME | Mignon |
| SIGNATURE | MIGNON L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4124-2666 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Orthodox Christians and Muslims in Cappadocia: Local Interactions in an Ottoman Countryside (1839–1923) By Aude Aylin de Tapia
From Silvio Pellico to Selahattin Demirtaş: Prison Literature and Literary Polemics in Turkey
Selahattin Demirtaş’s fiction has led to some fierce discussions in the literary world in Turkey. The polemics were a reminder that prison literature, broadly defined, always was a hotly debated genre in the literary sphere of the late Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey. Indeed, the publication of a Turkish translation of a classic example of the genre—namely Silvio Pellico’s Le mie prigioni, translated by Recaizade Mahmut Ekrem in 1874—ca…
Back to the future? The place of the religious 'other' in Ismail Gasprinsky's Islamic utopia
In 1906, Ismail Gasprinsky (1851–1914), a Crimean Tatar intellectual with ties to the Russian and the Ottoman intelligentsia published his novel The Muslims of the Land of Serenity [Darürrahat Müslümanları], one of the earliest utopian texts in a Turkic language. The narrative uncovers a secret land beyond the Sierra Nevada in Andalusia where some Muslims, having fled after the fall of Grenada in 1492, set up the ideal Muslim state preserving the…
Andere Götter, andere Opfer: Debatten über Vegetarismus und Religion in der Türkei, am Beispiel der Werke von Hasan Ferit Cansever und Asaf Halet Çelebi
In den letzten Jahren haben Debatten über die Themenbereiche Vegetarismus und Veganismus auch in der Türkei an Bedeutung gewonnen. Von der islamischen Akzeptanz vegetarischer und veganer Lebensstile bis zur Frage nach dem Tierwohl werden ernährungsbezogene Themen häufig in den Medien diskutiert. Weniger bekannt ist, dass schon in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts führende Intellektuelle und Literat*innen sich mit Vegetarismus aus ethischer, …
Islamische Theologie in Deutschland: Ein Modell für Europa und die Welt (Islamic Theology in Germany: A Model for Europe and the World) Edited by Mouez Khalfaoui and Jean Ehret
Uncoupling Language and Religion: An Exploration into the Margins of Turkish Literature
Uncoupling Language and Religion: An Exploration into the Margins of Turkish Literature
The Gülen Movement in Turkey: The Politics of Islam and Modernity, written by Caroline Tee
Du mysticisme au nationalisme religieux: Les ambiguïtés de Sâmiha Ayverdi (1905-1993)
The present article questions the apparent contradictions in the work of Samiha Ayverdi (1905-1993), the novelist and disciple of Kenan Rifai (1867-1950). Her novels and poetic prose chant a universalist mystical love, giving women a special place as actresses of the mystical quest, often outside the norms of the conservative bourgeoisie, as in the novel Son Menzil [The Final Stage, 1943], studied here. However, it is possible to speak of a break…
Healing Secular Life: Loss and Devotion in Modern Turkey * by Christopher Dole
Recent years have witnessed a steady rise in publications about Turkey and Islam. Rare are the texts, however, which are able to move beyond the often trite debates about the uneasy relationship between secularism and Islam. Christopher Dole’s Healing Secular Life: Loss and Devotion in Modern Turkey, however, is a work of anthropology which problematizes the opposition between the political and theological spheres and studies secularism as a dyna…
Muslim Nationalism and the New Turks * By Jenny WHITE
In an interview given in July 2012 to Today’s Zaman, a Turkish English-language daily close to the Gülen movement, the anthropologist Jenny White, reflecting on Turkey’s evolution during the last forty years, maintained that ‘in the seventies, Turkey was very much like a poor Eastern European country behind the Iron Curtain in the way it treated its citizens, in the way people feared the state and the military. There are now more possibilities; p…
A pilgrim's progress: Armenian and Kurdish literatures in Turkish and the rewriting of literary history
John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress is a narrative that has been translated into Turkish several times. Strangely, histories of Turkish literature and of literary translations into Turkish rarely make any reference to it. The fact that the early translations were in Armeno-Turkish and that they were promoted by Protestant missionary organizations might explain why they were ignored in the historiography of a field in which the contributions of n…
Paradoxes of a Cold War Sufi woman: Samiha Ayverdi between Islam, nationalism, and modernity
Widely recognized by nationalists, Islamists and conservatives as the heroine of the Turkish Right in the twentieth century, Sâmiha Ayverdi influenced the renaissance of right-wing politics in Turkey as an important leader of the Rifaȋ order, a prolific author, an unyielding anti-communist, and finally as an institution-builder for right-wing causes. This article focuses on the apparent paradoxes in Ayverdi's long career, such as her modernist in…
The Literati and the Letters: A Few Words on the Turkish Alphabet Reform
This paper explores the varied reactions of the Turkish literati and intelligentsia to the adoption of the Roman script imposed by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in 1928. Though alphabet reform had been on the agenda for almost 75 years, few intellectuals and bureaucrats had been supportive of romanisation in the years preceding the move. However after the implementation of the reform, opponents remained silent or were seemingly converted. This article di…
Paradoxes of a Cold War Sufi woman: Samiha Ayverdi between Islam, nationalism, and modernity
Widely recognized by nationalists, Islamists and conservatives as the heroine of the Turkish Right in the twentieth century, Sâmiha Ayverdi influenced the renaissance of right-wing politics in Turkey as an important leader of the Rifaȋ order, a prolific author, an unyielding anti-communist, and finally as an institution-builder for right-wing causes. This article focuses on the apparent paradoxes in Ayverdi's long career, such as her modernist in…
A pilgrim's progress: Armenian and Kurdish literatures in Turkish and the rewriting of literary history
John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress is a narrative that has been translated into Turkish several times. Strangely, histories of Turkish literature and of literary translations into Turkish rarely make any reference to it. The fact that the early translations were in Armeno-Turkish and that they were promoted by Protestant missionary organizations might explain why they were ignored in the historiography of a field in which the contributions of n…
Du mysticisme au nationalisme religieux: Les ambiguïtés de Sâmiha Ayverdi (1905-1993)
The present article questions the apparent contradictions in the work of Samiha Ayverdi (1905-1993), the novelist and disciple of Kenan Rifai (1867-1950). Her novels and poetic prose chant a universalist mystical love, giving women a special place as actresses of the mystical quest, often outside the norms of the conservative bourgeoisie, as in the novel Son Menzil [The Final Stage, 1943], studied here. However, it is possible to speak of a break…
The Literati and the Letters: A Few Words on the Turkish Alphabet Reform
This paper explores the varied reactions of the Turkish literati and intelligentsia to the adoption of the Roman script imposed by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in 1928. Though alphabet reform had been on the agenda for almost 75 years, few intellectuals and bureaucrats had been supportive of romanisation in the years preceding the move. However after the implementation of the reform, opponents remained silent or were seemingly converted. This article di…
Paradoxes of a Cold War Sufi woman: Samiha Ayverdi between Islam, nationalism, and modernity
Widely recognized by nationalists, Islamists and conservatives as the heroine of the Turkish Right in the twentieth century, Sâmiha Ayverdi influenced the renaissance of right-wing politics in Turkey as an important leader of the Rifaȋ order, a prolific author, an unyielding anti-communist, and finally as an institution-builder for right-wing causes. This article focuses on the apparent paradoxes in Ayverdi's long career, such as her modernist in…
Healing Secular Life: Loss and Devotion in Modern Turkey * by Christopher Dole
Recent years have witnessed a steady rise in publications about Turkey and Islam. Rare are the texts, however, which are able to move beyond the often trite debates about the uneasy relationship between secularism and Islam. Christopher Dole’s Healing Secular Life: Loss and Devotion in Modern Turkey, however, is a work of anthropology which problematizes the opposition between the political and theological spheres and studies secularism as a dyna…
Muslim Nationalism and the New Turks * By Jenny WHITE
In an interview given in July 2012 to Today’s Zaman, a Turkish English-language daily close to the Gülen movement, the anthropologist Jenny White, reflecting on Turkey’s evolution during the last forty years, maintained that ‘in the seventies, Turkey was very much like a poor Eastern European country behind the Iron Curtain in the way it treated its citizens, in the way people feared the state and the military. There are now more possibilities; p…
A pilgrim's progress: Armenian and Kurdish literatures in Turkish and the rewriting of literary history
John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress is a narrative that has been translated into Turkish several times. Strangely, histories of Turkish literature and of literary translations into Turkish rarely make any reference to it. The fact that the early translations were in Armeno-Turkish and that they were promoted by Protestant missionary organizations might explain why they were ignored in the historiography of a field in which the contributions of n…
Du mysticisme au nationalisme religieux: Les ambiguïtés de Sâmiha Ayverdi (1905-1993)
The present article questions the apparent contradictions in the work of Samiha Ayverdi (1905-1993), the novelist and disciple of Kenan Rifai (1867-1950). Her novels and poetic prose chant a universalist mystical love, giving women a special place as actresses of the mystical quest, often outside the norms of the conservative bourgeoisie, as in the novel Son Menzil [The Final Stage, 1943], studied here. However, it is possible to speak of a break…
The Gülen Movement in Turkey: The Politics of Islam and Modernity, written by Caroline Tee
Uncoupling Language and Religion: An Exploration into the Margins of Turkish Literature
Uncoupling Language and Religion: An Exploration into the Margins of Turkish Literature
Andere Götter, andere Opfer: Debatten über Vegetarismus und Religion in der Türkei, am Beispiel der Werke von Hasan Ferit Cansever und Asaf Halet Çelebi
In den letzten Jahren haben Debatten über die Themenbereiche Vegetarismus und Veganismus auch in der Türkei an Bedeutung gewonnen. Von der islamischen Akzeptanz vegetarischer und veganer Lebensstile bis zur Frage nach dem Tierwohl werden ernährungsbezogene Themen häufig in den Medien diskutiert. Weniger bekannt ist, dass schon in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts führende Intellektuelle und Literat*innen sich mit Vegetarismus aus ethischer, …
Islamische Theologie in Deutschland: Ein Modell für Europa und die Welt (Islamic Theology in Germany: A Model for Europe and the World) Edited by Mouez Khalfaoui and Jean Ehret
Orthodox Christians and Muslims in Cappadocia: Local Interactions in an Ottoman Countryside (1839–1923) By Aude Aylin de Tapia
From Silvio Pellico to Selahattin Demirtaş: Prison Literature and Literary Polemics in Turkey
Selahattin Demirtaş’s fiction has led to some fierce discussions in the literary world in Turkey. The polemics were a reminder that prison literature, broadly defined, always was a hotly debated genre in the literary sphere of the late Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey. Indeed, the publication of a Turkish translation of a classic example of the genre—namely Silvio Pellico’s Le mie prigioni, translated by Recaizade Mahmut Ekrem in 1874—ca…
Back to the future? The place of the religious 'other' in Ismail Gasprinsky's Islamic utopia
In 1906, Ismail Gasprinsky (1851–1914), a Crimean Tatar intellectual with ties to the Russian and the Ottoman intelligentsia published his novel The Muslims of the Land of Serenity [Darürrahat Müslümanları], one of the earliest utopian texts in a Turkic language. The narrative uncovers a secret land beyond the Sierra Nevada in Andalusia where some Muslims, having fled after the fall of Grenada in 1492, set up the ideal Muslim state preserving the…
Political science (11 works) · Turkey's Politics and Society (11 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Art (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · History (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · History (5 works) · Islam (5 works)