The Right to Have Places of Worship: The Cemevi Case in Turkey
Religions, 2022 This study discusses the obligation of the state to provide places of worship to religious communities in society, or to grant such existing places a specific status in law and thus entitle them to benefit from some public privileges.
Omur Aydin, Bulut Gurpinar
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A Migration and Acculturation Novel from the Dutch Immigrant Author Murat Işık: Verloren Grond (Lost Ground) [PDF]
Folklor/Edebiyat, 2020 Since ancient times, hunger, drought, animosity or the search for better education caused people to leave their lands and go to other places or other countries. Inevitably, these types of moves bring the phenomenon of culture to the fore.
Nazlı Gündüz
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"I miss my village" forced Kurdish migrants in Istanbul and their representation in associations [PDF]
, 2005 Metropolises in Turkey like İstanbul, Ankara, and İzmir along with the cities in Eastern and Southeastern Anatolia received a significant number of internally displaced Kurds (hereinafter referred to as Kurdish IDPs) in the late 1980s to the 1990s.
Celik, Ayse Betul, Çelik, Ayşe Betül
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Ethnic identity and perceptions of the police in Turkey: the case of Kurds and Turks [PDF]
, 2018 Drawing on the literature on minorities’ and ethnic groups’ perceptions of the police, this article investigates the differences between Kurds and Turks in terms of their perceptions of the police in Turkey.
Akboga, Sema, Sahin, Osman
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European Journal of Turkish Studies, 2015 This article aims to explore the impact of the hemşehri identity on the second generation of Alevi youth living in Gazi district of Istanbul. It advances the following hypothesis: the second generation of gecekondu (shanty town) inhabitants consider the ...
Hakan Yücel
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Editorial of Special Issue of National Identities: Alevism as an ethno-religious identity: Contested boundaries [PDF]
, 2018 No abstract for editorial but this is the opening paragraph: This special issue on Alevism and trans/national Alevi identity critically engages with the relationship between religion, ethnicity and national identity. The core issues are as follows: • how
Akdemir A. +34 more
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Islam hétérodoxe et christianisme en Grèce
Cahiers Balkaniques, 2017 In South-Eastern Europe, Alevism and Bektashism constitute two tightly connected religious movements whose roots go down to the Ottoman history of this area.
Isabelle Dépret
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The Ottoman state and descendants of the prophet in Anatolia and the Balkans (c. 1500-1700) [PDF]
, 2009 Throughout the Islamic world those claiming descent from the Prophet Muhammad (T. seyyid/serif pl. sadat/esraf) were (and are) accorded a special status.
Hulya, Canbakal, Hülya, Canbakal
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Women's Ijtihad and Lady Amin's Islamic ethics on womanhood and motherhood [PDF]
, 2020 Women's position, identity, and value in Islam have been affected by androcentric interpretations of the Qur'an and hadith throughout Islamic history. Women's roles in society, as well as their position vis-a-vis Islamic sources and authority, have been ...
Rahbari, Ladan
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The Alevi and questions of identity, including violence and insider/outsider perspectives
Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 2006 Alevilik is the second largest religious movement in Turkey after Sunnite Islam. The Alevi worship Ali and the twelve Imams of his family. Ali is more or less deified and therefore Alevis are considered as being ghulat (‘exaggerated’, ‘extremist’) and ...
Tina Hamrin-Dahl
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