Turkey's Alevi Enigma: A Comprehensive Overview

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Paul Joseph White, Joost Jongerden
BRILL, 2003 - 243 pages
This volume discusses how the multifaceted reality of Turkey's Alevis impinges on society and politics in contemporary Turkey. The book provides readers with a vigorous discussion of the origins and history of the Alevis, examines their ethnic identity and cultural representation, as well as appraising their political life and the effect that this had on Turkey's polity, the Turkish Left and the Kurdish National Movement, and upon the emergence of civil society. It analyses Alevi cultural manifestations and even looks at how Alevi diaspora communities in Europe effect Turkey in various ways. The book therefore provides readers with a convenient handbook of an important group that is largely unknown in the West - Turkey's Alevis.
 

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Contents

HAMIT BOZARSLAN
3
PAUL J WHITE
17
DAVID SHANKLAND
33
KRISZTINA KEHLBODROGI
53
JOOST JONGERDEN
71
Contemporary Turkey
93
LEYLA NEYZI
111
ELISE MASSICARD
125
AYŞE BETÜL ÇELIK
141
ISABELLE RIGONI
159
HANSLUKAS KIESER
177
MICHIEL LEEZENBERG
197
EMMA SINCLAIRWEBB
215
Index of Keywords
237
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Alevi community Alevi culture Alevi identity Alevi Kurdish Alevi Kurds Alevi revival Alevi villages Alevilik Alevis in Turkey Alevism Anatolia Ankara Armenians Atatürk authority Bektashi belief Berlin Bruinessen Çamuroğlu Çelebi claims Cumhuriyet Dailam Dailamites Dersim rebellion diaspora discourse Efendi festival groups Hacı Bektaş Veli Harput heterodox home-town associations human rights ideology imam ISBN 90 Istanbul Izady Kahraman Kahramanmaraş Kehl-Bodrogi Kemalist Kızılbaş Koçkiri Kültür Kurdish Alevis Kurdish language Kurdish national movement Kurdish nationalist establishment Kurdistan Kurmancî Kurmanji language leftist London mahalle Maraş Metin migration military Modern Turkey mosque muhtar Muslim Mustafa Kemal Olsson organizations Ottoman Özdalga Party Pir Sultan Abdal political population provinces Raudvere religion religious Republic Republican revolt ritual Rıza secular şeriat Shankland Sheikh Sheikh Said rebellion Sivas social society Stirling Sunni Islam Sunni village Susesi Swedish Research Institute symbolic tarikat tion traditional Tunceli Turkish Turks violence Vorhoff Yayınları Zaza

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About the author (2003)

Paul J. White, Ph.D. (2000) in Middle East Politics, Macquarie University, Sydney, is currently Acting Director of the Centre for the Middle East and North Africa at Macquarie University, where he also lectures in International Relations of the Middle East. He has published extensively on Middle Eastern questions, especially on the Kurds and the Alevis of Turkey, including Primitive rebels or revolutionary modernizers? The Kurdish national movement in Turkey(Zed Books, 2000).Joost Jongerden, Ph.D. (2006) in Social Sciences, Wageningen University, is Assistant Professor at a center for technology-studies associated to the Wageningen University and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He has published extensively on the Kurdish issue in Turkey and on society and technology issues.

Bibliographic information

TitleTurkey's Alevi Enigma: A Comprehensive Overview
Volume 88 of Social, economic, and political studies of the Middle East and Asia
EditorsPaul Joseph White, Joost Jongerden
PublisherBRILL, 2003
ISBN9004125388, 9789004125384
Length243 pages
  
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