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

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

Author(s): Ümit Çetin, Celia Jenkins, Suavi Aydin
Subject(s): Migration Studies, Politics and Identity
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: Alevis; Alevism; Alevi movements; Alevi politics; Alevi studies;

Summary/Abstract: 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.

  • Issue Year: 8/2020
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 7-15
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: English