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Politics and Identity in Alevi Kurds: An interview with Martin van Bruinessen

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  • Umit Cetin

    (University of Westminster, United Kingdom)

  • Celia Jenkins

    (University of Westminster, United Kingdom)

  • Suavi AYDIN

    (Hacettepe University, Turkey)

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This interview with Martin van Bruinessen records his personal and intellectual engagement with Alevis in Turkey and the Netherlands for over fifty years. Initially, his interest was in Anatolian Alevi culture and he began exploring the religious dimension of Alevism in the 1970s at a time when Alevis were more preoccupied with left-wing politics. He charts the emergence of Alevism studies since the 1980s and links it to the religious resurgence and reinvention of diverse ethno-religious Alevi identities associated with urbanised and diasporic communities. He further examines the relationship between Kurdish and Alevi movements and Alevism and Islam.

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  • Umit Cetin & Celia Jenkins & Suavi AYDIN, 2020. "Politics and Identity in Alevi Kurds: An interview with Martin van Bruinessen," Kurdish Studies, Society of history and cultural studies, Hong Kong, vol. 8(1), pages 7-15, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:mig:ksjrnl:v:8:y:2020:i:1:p:7-15
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.33182/ks.v8i1.560
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