Kurdish Studies Archive : Vol. 8 No. 1 2020. Special Issue: Alevi Kurds: History, Politics and Identity /

Kurdish Studies Archive publishes the content of volumes 1 to 10 of Kurdish Studies . This interdisciplinary and peer-reviewed journal was dedicated to publishing high-quality research and scholarship. Since 2023 the journal has been continued as the new Kurdish Studies Journal , published by Brill,...

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Other Authors: Bruinessen, Martin van (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2020.

Series: Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2025.

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Call Number: DR435.K87

Table of Contents:
  • Editorial
  • Alevi Kurds: History, Politics and Identity
  • Umit Cetin, Celia Jenkins, and Suavi Aydın
  • Interview
  • Alevi Kurds: History, Politics, Identity, Migration and Identity: An Interview with Martin van Bruinessen
  • Umit Cetin, Celia Jenkins, and Suavi Aydın
  • Research articles
  • A Survey of the Roots and History of Kurdish Alevism: What are the Divergences and Convergences between Kurdish Alevi Groups in Turkey?
  • Suavi Aydın
  • Reflections on the 19th Century Missionary Reports as Sources for the History of the (Kurdish) Kizilbash
  • Ayfer Karakaya-Stump
  • Political Representation of Alevi Kurds in Turkey: Historical Trends and Main Transformations
  • Cengiz Gunes
  • The Struggle to Unite Diaspora Alevis and the Working Class: Alevism in the Kavga/Kervan Magazine
  • Tuncay Bilecen
  • Diasporic Homeland, Rise of Identity and New Traditionalism: The Case of the British Alevi Festival
  • Cemal Salman
  • Language Attitudes and Religion: Kurdish Alevis in the UK
  • Birgul Yilmaz
  • "Aspirational Capital" and Transformations in First-generation Alevi-Kurdish Parents' Involvement with Their Children's Education in the UK
  • Celia Jenkins
  • Unregulated Desires: Anomie, the "Rainbow Underclass" and Second-generation Alevi Kurdish Gangs in London
  • Umit Cetin
  • Book reviews
  • Michael M. Gunter (ed.), Routledge Handbook on the Kurds
  • Martin van Bruinessen
  • Kardo Bokani, Social Communication and Kurdish Political Mobilisation in Turkey
  • Michael M. Gunter
  • Emel Elif Tugdar and Serhun Al (eds.), Comparative Kurdish Politics in the Middle East: Actors, Ideas, and Interests
  • Joost Jongerden
  • Christoph Markiewicz, The Crisis of Kingship in Late Medieval Islam: Persian Emigres and the Making of Ottoman Sovereignty
  • Michiel Leezenberg
  • Thomas Schmidinger, The Battle for the Mountain of the Kurds: Self-Determination and Ethnic Cleansing in the Afrin Region of Rojava
  • Stanley Thangaraj.