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Elisabeth Özdalga. The Veiling Issue, Official Secularism and Popular Islam in Modern Turkey , Nordic Institute of Asian Studies NIAS Report Series, No. 33 (Curzon Press, Richmond, G.B.: 1998).

Elisabeth Ozdalga's recent study on veiling, official secularism and popular Islam in Turkey is both ambitious and modest. Ambitious because it attempts to cover, in just 93 pages, 90 years of Ottomanrepublican experience with secularization. Each of the three issues that are included in her title needs to be studied in greater depth. This is especially the case for the analysis of popular Islam, which is an extremely complex research problem that no single researcher thus far has been able to take up in its multiple dimensions. Moreover, Ozdalga's surprisingly weak bibliography does little justice to the magnitude of the issues she has chosen to study. On the other hand, the study is modest because it was possibly written for the European public as a general assessment of these issues in order to familiarize the readers with the Turkish case. The illustrations, the pictures, and the glossary of basic terms included in the book reinforce this impression. If so and as such, the book is easy to read and does contain quite a bit of useful information. This is particularly true of the chapter on the legal aspects of veiling in Turkey which have become so contrived over the years that it is good to know that someone has compiled this information in writing.