... of the workshops, the Alevi Bektaşi Foundation, despite participating in the first meeting, decided to decline an invitation to the seventh workshop. The historic nature of the Alevi Opening was not sufficient to bridge the considerable distance between the expectations of the Alevi organisations, on the one hand...

... talip student Alevi Bektaşi Babai movement Balım Sultan dervishes Hacıbektaş Kalender Çelebi and Kalender dervish group postnişins headmasters tarikat assimilation oral traditions pir religious leader Çelebi s marginalisation homogeneity and homogenising Ali ibn Abu Talip Imam...

... group of Alevis established another organisation under the name of Sydney Alevi Bektaşi Cultural Centre (now referred to as the Union of Sydney Democratic Alevis [Sydney Demokratik Aleviler Birliği]). On the contrary, in Melbourne, twelve Alevis founded the Victoria Alevi Cultural...

... Çalıştayları cemevis Houses of Communion citizenship equal eşit yurttaşlık Kılıckaya Erdal AABF Almanya Alevi Birlikleri Federasyonu Alevi Unions in Germany ABF Alevi Bektaşi Federasyonu Federation of the Alevi Bektaşi Alevi Bektaşi Alevilerin Sesi assimilation Erdoğan Recep Tayyip Sivas massacre...

... to gravitate towards the marginalisation of the Alevi-Bektaşi followers, as well as the correlations between Bektaşism/Alevism and some aspects of secular ‘modernity’. These debates are affected by historical circumstances. The Bektaşi experience of official closure of their lodges pre-dates the secularist...

...This chapter is about the Çelebi branch of the Bektaşi order and the persistence of the Ulusoy family as the leading sacred patrilineage of the Alevi-Bektaşi community in the Turkish republican period. In the Ottoman period, the Çelebi branch (the Ulusoy family) was formally recognized as Hacı...

... the dynamics of this visibility. In 2010, UNESCO added the Alevi-Bektaşi semah ritual to the “Representatives of Intangible Human Cultural Heritage” list and recognized Dertli Divani as a “Living Human Treasure” in the category of zakir. The formal recognition of the semah...

... Islamism transnationalism Alevi Bektaşi cem Dertli Divani European Union EU folklore martyrology and martyrdom massacres nationalism Ottoman Empire semah ritual dance Sivas massacre zakirs Bektaşism Bektaşilik Çelebi s Dersim ‘Inner Dersim’ Tunceli Hacı Bektaş Veli Madımak Hotel...

... and the Bektashi tarikat already in Ottoman times. Both revere the figure of Haci Bektaş Veli (1209–71), a major Turkish saint who had probably emigrated from Khorasan to Anatolia and was a contemporary of Mevlana Rumi. A different lineage of the Alevi-Bektaşi movement can be traced through...