Education of the Nafs in the Context of Sprit and Soul in Alawi Faith / Alevi İnancında Can, Ruh Kavramı ve Nefsin Eğitimi [PDF]
Folklor/Edebiyat, 2021 The concepts spirit, soul and nafs have occupied the human mind for very many centuries. Despite the extensive literature devoted to them, the essence of these concepts has yet to be fully and thoroughly comprehended.
İbrahim Gül
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The Negative Perception of the Bektashi and the Kizilbash/ Alevîs in Literature from Nur Baba to Bektaşi Kız (1913-1945) / Nur Baba’dan Bektaşi Kız’a Edebiyatta Bektaşî ve Kızılbaş/Alevîlere Yönelik Olumsuz Algı (1913-1945) [PDF]
Folklor/Edebiyat, 2021 The Kizilbash/Alevî and Bektashî have been subject to various negative criticisms due to their beliefs outside Sunnism, the official belief system since the sixteenth century. It has been seen that the members of the two groups, whose social bases and
Yalçın Çakmak
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Türk Kültürü ve HACI BEKTAŞ VELİ Araştırma Dergisi, 2021 Türkiye’de Alevilik araştırmaları 19. yüzyılda şarkiyatçılar ve misyonerler tarafından başlatıldı. Şarkiyatçı ve misyonerler Alevileri Hristiyanlarla benzerlikleri çerçevesinde araştırdı ve değerlendirdiler. Onlara göre Aleviler Hristiyan kökenden gelmiş, süreç içinde çeşitli etkilerle Alevileşmişlerdi.
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Saints in Islamic Ritual Music: Grief for İmam Hüseyin in Alevi Tradition
Tasavvuf Araştırmaları Enstitüsü Dergisi, 2022 This study aims to explore the significance of saints in Islam based on the music used in rituals. The religious group Alevi, which this paper focuses on, has religious beliefs and practices that are a mixture of Shi’i Islam and Sufism. Alevi rituals are
Manami Suzuki
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Defining the Nation: Kurdish Historiography in Turkey in the 1990s [PDF]
, 2001 This article examines Kurdish historiography in Turkey in the 1990s. It centres on the question how the national community is historicised via central myths, especially for the pre-Islamic periods.
Hirschler, Konrad
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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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Re-assessing the Genocide of Kurdish Alevis in Dersim, 1937-38
Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal, 2020 This article discusses a century-long denial of historic genocide targeting Kurdish Alevis in Turkey. Firstly, I argue that the state-sponsored killings and forced displacements that occurred in Dersim in 1937-38 constitute genocide.
Dilşa Deniz
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From a ‘sort of Muslim’ to ‘proud to be Alevi’: The Alevi Religion and Identity Project combatting the negative identity among second-generation Alevis in the UK [PDF]
, 2017 This article explains how the negative identity of second-generation Alevi- Kurds in the UK has been transmitted intergenerationally, linked to their history of persecuted exclusion in Turkey and to the transnational settlement of Alevi migrants in the ...
Cetin, U. +3 more
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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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The Saz as a Mode of Understanding Alevism
Voices, 2017 An attempt to give insight into who Alevis are and what Alevism is, only further demonstrates the complexities that arise in doing so. However, this ambiguity is essential to discuss in terms of what this paper seeks to answer and that is: How can we ...
Iris Sibel Muradoglu
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