Alevi Library
The project
The Alevi Library is a collection of publications on Alevism curated by Markus Dreßler (University of Leipzig), Janina Karolewski (University of Hamburg) and Benjamin Weineck (University of Heidelberg) in co-operation with the FID Middle East.
Initially, the collection will comprise academic literature available online. In the future, the collection will focus on works by non-academic local historians and ethnographers (araştırmacı-yazar), grey literature, journals and editions of manuscripts. The growing collection provides the interested public with primary and secondary media that is difficult to access and is intended to serve as a research tool for the international field of Alevi studies in particular.
Alevi Library (in chronological order)
- Jacob, Georg. 1908. Contributions to the knowledge of the dervish order of the Bektashis. Berlin: Mayer & Müller. https://dx.doi.org/10.25673/99723.
- Garnett, Lucy Mary Jane. 1909. The Turkish people : their social life, religious beliefs and institutions and domestic life. London: Methuen. https://dx.doi.org/10.25673/91376.
- Wulzinger, Karl. 1913. Three Bektashi monasteries in Phrygia. Contributions to Building Science 21. Berlin: Wasmuth. https://archive.org/details/dreibektaschikl00wulz/.
- Tschudi, Rudolf, ed. 1914. The Vilâjet-nâme of Hâdschim Sultan: a Turkish legend of a saint.
- Turkish Library 17. Berlin: Mayer & Müller. https://archive.org/details/dasviljetnme00haci/.
- Mazzaoui, Michel M. 1972. The origins of the Ṣafawids : Šīʿism, Ṣūfism, and the Ġulāt. Wiesbaden: Steiner. https://dx.doi.org/10.25673/97346.
- Haneda, Masashi. 1987. Le châh et les qizilbāš : le systeme militaire safavide. Berlin: Schwarz. https://dx.doi.org/10.25673/91808.
- Kehl-Bodrogi, Krisztina. 1988. The Kızılbaş Alevis : Studies on an esoteric religious community in Anatolia. Berlin: Schwarz. https://dx.doi.org/10.25673/91794.
- Hamza'ī, Riḍā Farīburz. 1990. The Yaresan : a sociological, historical and religio-historical study of a Kurdish community. Berlin: Schwarz. https://dx.doi.org/10.25673/91774.
- Mélikoff, Irène. 1992. Sur les traces du soufisme turc : recherches sur l'Islam populaire en Anatolie. Istanbul: Èditions Isis. https://dx.doi.org/10.25673/71862.
- Popović, Aleksandre, Gilles Veinstein and Alexandre Popović. 1995. Bektachiyya : Études sur l'ordre mystique des Bektachis et les groupes relevant de Hadji Bektach. Istanbul: Éditions Isis. https://dx.doi.org/10.25673/43086.
- Vorhoff, Karin. 1995. Between faith, nation and new community : Alevi identity in contemporary Turkey. Berlin: Schwarz. https://dx.doi.org/10.25673/91790.
- Mélikoff, Irène. 1995. De l'épopée au mythe : itinéraire turcologique. Istanbul: Èditions Isis. https://dx.doi.org/10.25673/64250.
- Hasluck, Frederick William. 2000. Christianity and Islam under the sultans. Istanbul: The Isis Press. https://dx.doi.org/10.25673/79498.
- Hendrich, Beatrice. 2004. "In the month of Muharrem my lute cries!": the Alevi long-necked lute as a medium of remembrance. https://dx.doi.org/10.25673/35949.
- Ağuiçenoğlu, Hüseyin. 2005 The Alevi Dede Office. https://dx.doi.org/10.25673/32645.
- Hendrich, Béatrice. 2005. invented festivals, false rituals?: The commemoration of Hacıbektaş. https://dx.doi.org/10.25673/36175.
- Langer, Robert. 2006. The reframing of Alevi community rituals in the context of ritual transfer and migration. https://dx.doi.org/10.25673/37621.
- Langer, Robert. 2008. The Alevi animal sacrifice (Kurban) between professionalisation and substitution : recent developments in the context of migration and urbanisation. https://dx.doi.org/10.25673/37622.
- Langer, Robert. 2008 Alevi rituals. https://dx.doi.org/10.25673/92317.
- Hendrich, Béatrice. 2009 Remembering Culture(s) in Turkey: A Brief Survey. https://dx.doi.org/10.25673/36192.
- Uçar, Ramazan, ed. 2009. Güncel Bazı Alevî-Bektâşî Problemlerine Abdal Musa Tekkesi Merkezli Bir Bakış. Dinî araştırmalar : DA ; altı aylık bilimsel dergi 12, no. 33: 89-98. https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/da/issue/4470/61655.
- Köse, Talha. 2010. Alevi opening and the democratisation initiative in Turkey / Talha Köse. SETA, Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research. https://dx.doi.org/10.25673/108076.
- Hendrich, Béatrice. 2013 Mother or woman?: Alevism and conceptions of the non-masculine. https://doi.org/10.25673/36189.
- Langer, Robert. 2013. the transfer of the Alevi Cem ritual from Anatolia to Istanbul and beyond. https://doi.org/10.25673/37649.
- Dreßler, Markus. 2013 What is Alevism?: The current discussion and historical traditions. https://doi.org/10.25673/36875.
- Dreßler, Markus. 2013. the modern dede : religious authority in transition. https://doi.org/10.25673/36874.
- Ağuiçenoğlu, Hüseyin. 2014 Ethics in Alevism. https://doi.org/10.25673/33211.
- Paul, Amanda and Seyrek, Demir Murat. 2014. Freedom of religion in Turkey: the Alevi issue. Ed. by European Policy Centre. Brussels: European Policy Centre. https://doi.org/10.25673/107797.
- Peacock, A. C. S. and Sara Nur Yıldız. 2016. Islamic literature and intellectual life in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Anatolia. Würzburg: Ergon Verlag on commission. https://doi.org/10.25673/110637.
- Ağuiçenoğlu, Hüseyin. 2017. senkretizm örneği olarak Alevi metinlerinde etik öğreti. https://doi.org/10.25673/33237.
- Hendrich, Béatrice. 2018. location(s) of memory and commemoration in Alevi culture : incorporation and storage. https://dx.doi.org/10.25673/36196.
- Özdemir, Ulaş, Wendelmoet Hamelink and Martin Greve. 2018. Diversity and contact among singer-poet traditions in Eastern Anatolia. Baden-Baden: Ergon Verlag on commission. https://dx.doi.org/10.25673/116630.
- Ağuiçenoğlu, Hüseyin. 2019. Identity constructions among Alevi Kurds in Germany. https://dx.doi.org/10.25673/97288.
- Greve, Martin, Ulaş Özdemir and Raoul Motika. 2020. Aesthetic and performative dimensions of Alevi cultural heritage. Ergon Verlag on commission, Baden-Baden. https://dx.doi.org/10.25673/116634.
- Brinkmann, Stefanie, Giovanni Ciotti, Stefano Valente and Eva Maria Wilden, eds. 2021. Education Materialised: Reconstructing Teaching and Learning Contexts through Manuscripts. De Gruyter. https://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110741124.
- Karolewskie, Janina. 2021. Notebooks of Alevi Dedes and the transmission of ritual practice: knowledge transfer in an Anatolian village community, Malatya province, 20th century. Heidelberg. https://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-305043.
- Kara, Cem. 2022. Beyond religious unambiguity: Ambiguous beliefs in historical traditions of Alevism. Journal for Religious Studies 30, no. 2 (3 November): 279-299. https://dx.doi.org/10.1515/zfr-2022-0015.
- Kara, Cem. 2023. Religious Boundaries through Emotions: The Representation of Emotions and Their Group-Forming Function in Alevi Poetry. Religions 14, no. 6 (1 June): 732. https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel14060732.