Markus Dressler

Writing Religion

The Making of Turkish Alevi Islam

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 346
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 538g
• ISBN-13: 9780190234096
• ISBN-10: 0190234091
• Artikelnr.: 47969976

Autorenporträt

Markus Dressler is currently Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Göttingen.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgements
* Prologue: Alevism Contested
* Introduction: Genealogies and Significations
* Part 1: Missionaries, Nationalists, and the Kizilbas-Alevis
* Chapter 1: The Western Discovery of the Kizilbas-Alevis
* Chapter 2: Nationalism, Religion, and Inter-Communal Violence
* Chapter 3: Entering the Gaze of the Nationalists
* Part 2: Mehmed Fuad Köprülü (1890-1966) and the Conceptualization of
Inner-Islamic Difference
* Chapter 4: Nationalism, Historiography, and Politics
* Chapter 5: Religiography: Taxonomies of Essences and Differences
* Chapter 6: Alevi and Alevilik in the Work of Fuad Köprülü and His
Legacy
* Conclusion: Tropes of Difference and Sameness - The Making of Alevism
as a Modernist Project Notes
* Bibliography
* Index