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Article: Turkey's Alevi Enigma: A Comprehensive Overview.(Book Review)
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- International Journal of Kurdish Studies
- Article date:
- January 1, 2003
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Paul J. White and Joost Jongerden (eds.) Turkey's Alevi Enigma: A Comprehensive Overview. Leiden and London: Brill, 2003. 235 pp. Bibliographies at end of each contributor's monograph. Index of keywords and persons, 237-243.
Turkey's Alevi Enigma, a collection of monographs from thirteen established Middle East scholars, grapples with the question: Who are the Alevis of eastern Anatolia, both in terms of religious and ethno-political identity. No mere dabbling in esoterica, the book deals with issues important to students of modern Turkey, especially since the Alevis, as unobtrusive as they are, may still constitute between 10 and 20 percent of Turkey's ...