Negotiating Identities Use of Prayer Beads in Turkish Everyday

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2012-09-11

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Tönük Kruıthof, Damla

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D. Tönük Kruıthof, “Negotiating Identities Use of Prayer Beads in Turkish Everyday,” 2012, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/76443.