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- Publisher
- Brill
- Copyright
- © 2005 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
- ISSN
- 1609-8498
- eISSN
- 1573-384X
- DOI
- 10.1163/1573384054068097
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
Brill, Leiden, 2005 Iran and the Caucasus, 9.1 REVIEWS Paul J. White, Joost Jongerden (eds.), Turkey’s Alevi Enigma. A Comprehensive Overview (Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia, vol.38), Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2003, 235 pp. The collection of articles edited by Paul J. White and Joost Jongerden is a valuable attempt to provide a coherent picture of ‘Alevi question’ in Turkey. The followers of Alevism, as an extreme Shi‘a religious trend originated in Anatolia, represent about 15 to 30 percent of the total population of the present-day Turkey. 1 Hamit Bozarslan, in his essay, Alevism and the myths of research: The need for a new research agenda , discusses the three myths of research on the Alevis in Turkey. The first myth that invented Alevism as an eternal social category featuring a constant opposition to the state, is discussed under the title of ‘long term history’. The second myth, ‘Kemalist dis- continuity’, is the myth of Alevism as a natural ally of the Kemalist Republic, and the third one is that of the democratic culture of Alevis, as if there is an unshakeable link between Alevism and democracy. Bozarslan, then, insists on
Journal
Iran and the Caucasus – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2005