Turkey's Alevi Enigma: A Comprehensive Overview - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 9004125388 ISBN 13 : 9789004125384

Editeur : Brill, 2002

Synopsis

This volume discusses how the multifaceted reality of Turkey's Alevis impinges on society and politics in contemporary Turkey. The book provides readers with a vigorous discussion of the origins and history of the Alevis, examines their ethnic identity and cultural representation, as well as appraising their political life and the effect that this had on Turkey's polity, the Turkish Left and the Kurdish National Movement, and upon the emergence of civil society. It analyses Alevi cultural manifestations and even looks at how Alevi diaspora communities in Europe effect Turkey in various ways. The book therefore provides readers with a convenient handbook of an important group that is largely unknown in the West - Turkey's Alevis.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Paul J. White, Ph.D. (2000) in Middle East Politics, Macquarie University, Sydney, is currently Acting Director of the Centre for the Middle East and North Africa at Macquarie University, where he also lectures in International Relations of the Middle East. He has published extensively on Middle Eastern questions, especially on the Kurds and the Alevis of Turkey, including Primitive rebels or revolutionary modernizers? The Kurdish national movement in Turkey (Zed Books, 2000).
Joost Jongerden, Ph.D. (2006) in Social Sciences, Wageningen University, is Assistant Professor at a center for technology-studies associated to the Wageningen University and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He has published extensively on the Kurdish issue in Turkey and on society and technology issues.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Brill
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9004125388
• ISBN 13: 9789004125384
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 264
• Éditeur: White Paul J, Jongerden Joost
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible