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Zusatztext This thought-provoking and provocative but historically sensitive contribution is the best examination I have seen of the political foundation for the Kizilbas communities renamed 'Alevis.' Dressler's interpretation will be a prime resource for both scholarship and public policy concerning the religio-secular debate in Turkey. Informationen zum Autor Markus Dressler is currently Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Göttingen. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...
