The Alevis in Turkey : the emergence of a secular Islamic tradition / David Shankland.
Material type: TextPublication details: London ; New York : RoutledgeCurzon, 2003.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 240 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 020341750X
- 9780203417508
- 9781135789626
- 1135789622
- 9781135789572
- 1135789576
- 9781135789619
- 1135789614
- 9780415444361
- 0415444365
- 1280058129
- 9781280058127
- 0203419480
- 9780203419489
- Bektashi -- Turkey
- Nosairians -- Turkey
- Shīʻah -- Turkey
- Shīʻah -- Relations -- Sunnites
- Sunnites -- Relations -- Shīʻah
- Islam and secularism -- Turkey
- Religion and politics -- Turkey
- Turkey -- Ethnic relations
- Asie Mineure -- Relations interethniques
- RELIGION -- Islam -- General
- Bektashi
- Ethnic relations
- Interfaith relations
- Islam and secularism
- Nosairians
- Religion and politics
- Shīʻah
- Sunnites
- Turkey
- Aleviten
- Türkei
- Alevieten
- 297.8/3 22
- BP189.7.B4 S52 2003eb
- 11.83
- EH 5418
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-236) and index.
Print version record.
Introduction -- 1. Alevi and Sunni in the Republic of Turkey -- 2. The sub-province -- 3. The Sunni villages : a model of rural integration -- 4. Susesi : an Alevi community -- 5. Religion, ritual and social control -- 6. Social change and the Alevi communities -- 7. The Alevis, evolving identity and the state -- 8. conclusion : comparative and theoretical relections.
"The Alevis, a heterodox Islamic group in modern Turkey, have no church, no established doctrine and no shared liturgy. Instead, their religion has developed in rural Anatolia through hereditary holy figures who transmitted esoteric religious thought through music, poetry and collective rituals." "Using ethnographic material gained over a period of five years residence in Turkey, David Shankland shows how social change in the rural, hierarchical, rather closed Alevi communities is leading to the emergence of a unique secularist Islamic tradition. By including much contrasting information about the way the Alevi communities differ from the Sunni, their orthodox counterparts, this work is able to offer original insights into the wider processes of social change that are transforming Turkish society as a whole."--Jacket.
English.
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