Alevi Identity

Cultural, Religious and Social Perspectives
Hardback
210 pages
Illustrations
Published: 1998
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Books Ltd
ISBN / EAN: 0700710876

In Turkey, with its complex ethnic and cultural composition, a large number of social movements fostering cultural and ethnic aims have appeared since the end of the 1960s, including the Alevi, described in this text. Comparative studies of groups in nei