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Sevgi Adak Editor

Dr. Sevgi Adak is Associate Professor and Head of Research at the Aga Khan University, Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations (AKU-ISMC), London. Prior to joining AKU-ISMC in 2016, she was a research fellow at the International Institute for Social History, Amsterdam. She is the author of Anti-Veiling Campaigns in Turkey: State, Society and Gender in the Early Republic (I.B. Tauris, 2022), and co-editor of Tek Parti Donemini Yeniden Du?unmek: Devlet, Toplum, Siyaset (Tarih Vakf?, 2022). She is co-editor of the book series In Translation: Contemporary Thought in Muslim Contexts at Edinburgh University Press and is on the editorial board of Contemporary Turkey joint book series of the British Institute at Ankara and I.B. Tauris.