Alevis in Europe: voices of migration, culture and identity
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Tözün Issa: 7 September 1956-17 November 2015 -- List of maps, photographs and illustrations -- Maps -- Photographs -- Illustration -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Glossary of Alevi terms -- Pronunciation of Turkish, Kurdish and Zazaki characters -- Turkish characters -- Pronunciation of Kurdish characters -- Zazaki (Latin) characters -- The Zazaki Latin alphabet (Elifba Zazaki) -- Introduction -- Notes -- Part I: Alevism: Roots and practices -- Chapter 1: An introduction to Alevism: Roots and practices -- Introduction -- Origins of Alevism -- Evolution of Alevism -- Practicing Alevism: Fundamental rituals and myths -- Mısaybine/Musahiplik [Spiritual brotherhood] -- Kewrayine/Kirvelik [Compaternity] -- Xizir/Hızır [Khidr] -- Jare/Ziyaret -- Cem -- Semah -- On İki İmam/Muharrem Fast [the 'Twelve Imams' Fast] -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 2: 'Heterodoxy' within 'heterodoxy': Anşa Bacı of the Sıraç Alevis, a charismatic female leader -- Introduction -- Political conditions that formed the Anşa Bacı movement -- Anşa Bacı as a Kizilbash political leader -- The 'Great Guy': Anşa Bacı as a mythical charismatic ancestor -- Anşa Bacı as a Kizilbashi ancestor and the ancestral worship of today's Siraçis -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 3: The Alevi of Dersim: A psychosocial approach to the effects of the massacre, time and space -- Introduction -- The Dersim Massacre (1937-1938) -- Kizilbaş/Alevi of Dersim -- The salience of Alevilik (Aleviness) through the generations -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Part II: The politics of identity in transformation -- Chapter 4: Alevism in Turkey: Tensions and patterns of migration -- Introduction -- From the Ottoman Empire to present socio-political developments: their impact on the Alevi community.
