In this article, I turn to a late nineteenth-century Ottoman-Muslim women’s periodical, Hanımlara Mahsus Gazete (Ladies’ own gazette) to broaden the scope of transnational feminist genealogies of women’s piety, agency, and political subjectivity. I argue that the writers and editors of the gazette, who were mostly Ottoman-Muslim women, illustrate the subject position of nonpious believers. This position encapsulates the ethical and political imperatives of a subjectivity that is neither emancipatory nor exclusionary for women. Situating the gazette in its local and transnational historical context, I examine a series of articles on women’s public schooling that merge the traditional demands of Ottoman society with demands for Muslim women’s public education. These articles illustrate an approach to religion and religiosity that prioritizes women’s public, collective, and political engagement, which requires a rethinking of the conceptual relationship between political action and religious belief. In dialogue with contemporary scholarship on women’s piety and agency, I show how Ottoman-Muslim women’s rediscovery and reevaluation of their own religion was articulated as a fundamental necessity for crafting a new kind of public space, one in which women are recognized as rightful members of the politico-religious community. While this may seem like a merely strategic, or instrumental, use of religion, what distinguishes this periodical’s turn to Islam is its contributors’ simultaneous commitment to following religious precepts and to unearthing these precepts’ potential for enabling women’s inclusion in the life of the politico-religious community.

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既不是解放也不是排斥：通过 Hanımlara Mahsus Gazete 重新思考虔诚的政治

在这篇文章中，我转向了 19 世纪晚期的奥斯曼-穆斯林女性期刊 Hanımlara Mahsus Gazete（女士自己的公报），以拓宽关于女性虔诚、能动性和政治主体性的跨国女权主义谱系的范围。我认为，公报的作者和编辑，大多是奥斯曼-穆斯林妇女，说明了不虔诚的信徒的主体地位。这一立场概括了对女性既不解放也不排斥女性的主观性的伦理和政治要求。将公报置于其地方和跨国历史背景中，我研究了一系列关于女性公立教育的文章，这些文章将奥斯曼社会的传统需求与穆斯林女性公共教育的需求结合在一起。这些文章阐述了一种优先考虑妇女的公共、集体和政治参与的宗教和宗教信仰的方法，这需要重新思考政治行动和宗教信仰之间的概念关系。在与当代关于女性虔诚和能动性的学术对话中，我展示了奥斯曼-穆斯林女性如何重新发现和重新评估她们自己的宗教，这是打造一种新的公共空间的基本必要条件，在这种公共空间中，女性被认为是合法的成员。政治宗教团体。虽然这似乎只是对宗教的战略性或工具性使用，