Alevis And Alevism
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Alevis and Alevism
Author | : Hege Irene Markussen |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Alevis |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105121918069 |
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Struggling for Recognition
Author | : Martin Sökefeld |
Publsiher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 1845454782 |
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As a religious and cultural minority in Turkey, the Alevis have suffered a long history of persecution and discrimination. In the late 1980s they started a movement for the recognition of Alevi identity in both Germany and Turkey. Today, they constitute a significant segment of Germany's Turkish immigrant population. In a departure from the current debate on identity and diaspora, Sökefeld offers a rich account of the emergence and institutionalization of the Alevi movement in Germany, giving particular attention to its politics of recognition within Germany and in a transnational context. The book deftly combines empirical findings with innovative theoretical arguments and addresses current questions of migration, diaspora, transnationalism, and identity.
Alevism as an Ethno Religious Identity
Author | : Celia Jenkins,Suavi Aydin,Umit Cetin |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 2019-10-23 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781351600996 |
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Until recently the importance of religion in the modern world has often been underestimated in Western societies, whereas its significance is absolutely crucial in the Middle East. Religion is critical to a sense of belonging for communities and nations, and can be a force for unity or division. This is the case for the Alevis, an ethnic and religious community that constitutes approximately 20% of the Turkish population – its second largest religious group. In the current crisis in the Middle East, the heightened religious tensions between Sunnis, Shias and Alawites raise questions about who the Alevis are and where they stand in this conflict. With an ambiguous relationship to Islam, historically Alevis have been treated as a ‘suspect community’ in Turkey and recently, whilst distinct from Alawites, have sympathised with the Assad regime’s secular orientation. The chapters in this book analyse different aspects of Alevi identity in relation to religion, politics, culture, education and national identity, drawing on specialist research in the field. The approach is interdisciplinary and contributes to wider debates concerning ethnicity, religion, migration and trans/national identity within and across ethno-religious boundaries. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the National Identities journal.
The Alevis in Modern Turkey and the Diaspora
Author | : Derya Ozkul,Hege Markussen |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-11-15 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 1474492037 |
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This book explores the struggles of a minority group - Alevis - for recognition and representation in Turkey and the diaspora. It examines how they mobilise against state practices and claim their rights, while at the same time negotiating how they define themselves. The authors offers a conceptual framework to study minorities by looking at both structural and agency-related factors in resisting state pressure and mobilising for their rights.
Turkey s Alevi Enigma
Author | : Paul J. White,Joost Jongerden |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2021-08-04 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9789004492356 |
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This volume, written by specialists, be they political scientists, historians or anthropologists, is a convenient handbook on the origins and history of Turkey's Alevis - an important group that is largely unknown in the West. It examined their ethnic identity, cultural representation, political life, and relations with the Turkish State, The Turkish Left and the Kurdish National Movement.
Writing Religion
Author | : Markus Dressler |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2015-04-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780190234096 |
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In the late 1980s, the Alevis, at that time thought to be largely assimilated into the secular Turkish mainstream, began to assert their difference as they never had before. The question of Alevism's origins and its relation to Islam and to Turkish culture became a highly contested issue. According to the dominant understanding, Alevism is part of the Islamic tradition, although located on its margins. It is further assumed that Alevism is intrinsically related to Anatolian and Turkish culture, carrying an ancient Turkish heritage, leading back into pre-Islamic Central Asian Turkish pasts. Dressler argues that this knowledge about the Alevis-their demarcation as "heterodox" but Muslim and their status as carriers of Turkish culture-is in fact of rather recent origins. It was formulated within the complex historical dynamics of the late Ottoman Empire and the first years of the Turkish Republic in the context of Turkish nation-building and its goal of ethno-religious homogeneity.
The Alevis in Turkey
Author | : David Shankland |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2003-12-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781135789626 |
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The example of the Alevis of Turkey is used to contribute to debates over the role of Islam in the modern world. It is argued there is nothing inherently secular-proof within Islam, but belief depends on the wider social and religious context.
Kizilbash Alevis in Ottoman Anatolia
Author | : Karakaya-Stump Ayfer Karakaya-Stump |
Publsiher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2020-01-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781474432702 |
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The Kizilbash were at once key players in and the foremost victims of the Ottoman-Safavid conflict that defined the early modern Middle East. Today referred to as Alevis, they constitute the second largest faith community in modern Turkey, with smaller pockets of related groups in the Balkans. Yet several aspects of their history remain little understood or explored. This first comprehensive socio-political history of the Kizilbash/Alevi communities uses a recently surfaced corpus of sources generated within their milieu. It offers fresh answers to many questions concerning their origins and evolution from a revolutionary movement to an inward-looking religious order.