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Writing Religion - The Making of Turkish Alevi Islam (Hardcover)
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Writing Religion - The Making of Turkish Alevi Islam (Hardcover)
Series: AAR Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion
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Markus Dressler tells the story of how a number of marginalized
socioreligious communities, traditionally and derogatorily referred
to as Kizilbas (''Redhead''), captured the attention of the late
Ottoman and early Republican Turkish nationalists and were
gradually integrated into the newly formulated identity of secular
Turkish nationalists. In the late 1980s, the Alevis (roughly 15-20%
of the population), at that time thought to be mostly assimilated
into the secular Turkish mainstream, began to assert their
difference as they never had before. As Dressler demonstrates, they
began a revitalization and reformation of Alevi institutions and
networks, demanded an end to social and institutional
discrimination, and claimed recognition as a community distinct
from the Sunni majority population. Both in Turkey and in countries
with a significant Turkish migrant population, such as Germany, the
''Alevi question,'' which comprises matters of representation and
relation to the state, as well as questions of cultural and
religious location, has in the last two decades become a matter of
public interest. Alevism is often assumed to be part of the Islamic
tradition, although located on its margins - margins marked with
indigenous terms such as Sufi and Shia, or with outside qualifiers
such as 'heterodox' and 'syncretistic.' It is further assumed that
Alevism is an intrinsic part of Anatolian and Turkish culture,
carrying ancient Turkish heritage back beyond Anatolia and into the
depths of the Central Asian Turkish past. Dressler argues that this
knowledge about the Alevis, their demarcation as ''heterodox'' but
Muslim, and their status as an intrinsic part of Turkish culture,
is in fact much more recent. That knowledge can be traced back to
the last years of the Ottoman Empire and the first years of the
Turkish Republic, which was the decisive period of the formation of
the Turkish nation state. Dressler contends that the Turkish
nationalist reading of Alevism emerged as an anti-thesis to earlier
Western interpretations. Both the initial Western/Orientalist
discovery of the Alevis and their re-signification by Turkish
nationalists are the cornerstones of the modern genealogy of the
Alevism of Turkey. It is time, according to Dressler, for the
origins of the Alevis to be demythologized.
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