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“LET’S RECLAIM OUR HISTORY AND CULTURE!”— IMAGINING ALEVI COMMUNITY IN CONTEMPORARY TURKEY 1 BY KARIN VORHOFF Istanbul “ pasts are restored, fellowships are imagined, and futures dreamed ” 2 In March 1995 a violent assault on Alevi coffee houses in an Istanbul squatter area killed two people and left several others injured. The mass rally that followed the shooting quickly turned into a violent political protest, and more than twenty people were shot dead by police. Though for some ten years the Alevis of Turkey had been the subject of a lively public debate in the coun- try itself, the massacre drew world attention to a socioreligious group that had to then been more or less unknown. My contribution to the understanding of the process of revival and cultural self-assertion that has recently grasped the Alevi com- munity will first sketch the background and contours of the theo- retical problem and then will consider the role of “history” and “tradition” in the processes of the formation and maintenance of this movement. Simultaneously I hope to introduce orientalists to 1 This article is the revised and enlarged version of a lecture presented at the Orient-Institut der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft
Die Welt des Islams – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1998
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