Türküler, Türk insanının dini ve dindışı tüm duygularına tercüman olmuştur. Kahramanlık, savaşlar, ölüm, aşk, sevda, ayrılık gibi konular her yörede âşıklar tarafından dile getirilirken kimi zamanda ...dini metinler, tasavvufi temalar ve Alevi-Bektaşi söylemleri türkülerde konu edilmektedir. Dini boyutu olduğu kadar toplum yaşamının biçimlendirilmesinde de önemli bir etken olan bu unsurlar Amasya türkülerinde kendine yer bulmuştur. Gerek yazılı gerekse sözel aktarımlar sayesinde olsun bir toplumun yaşayan hafızası kabul edilen türküler, konuları, içerikleri ve gelecek kuşaklara vereceği mesajlarıyla içinde yaşadığı yörenin en önemli tarihi ve sosyo-kültürel zenginliklerindendir. Amasya türküleri tematik olarak incelendiğinde ayrılık, aşk ve sevda konulu türküler ilk sırada yer almaktadır. Bununla birlikte ağıt temalı türküler ve semah karakterli eserler de mevcuttur. Sözlü kültürün aktarımında halk müziğinin, âşıkların, dinsel ve dilsel özelliklerin önemi tartışılmaz. Çünkü türküler tıpkı gelenek gibi kuşaktan kuşağa, kalpten kulağa intikal eder. Bu çalışmada Amasya türkülerinde geçen Alevi-Bektaşi unsurları incelenmekte aynı zamanda tespit edilen türkülerin müzikal analizleri de çalışmada yer almaktadır. Çalışmada kullan ana kaynaklar arasında TRT Türk Halk müziği arşivi, TRT Müzik Dairesince hazırlanan Amasya Türküleri CD’si ve Amasya Belediyesi tarafından basılmış olan “Amasya Türküleri” kitabıdır. Çalışmada yaklaşık 40 Amasya türküsü incelenmiş ve bu türkülerde geçen Alevi-Bektaşi unsurları bulgular kısmında ele alınmıştır.
The academic and lay interest towards Turkey’s Alevi community has so far treated the Alevi man as the ultimate Alevi subject. Gender dynamics in the Alevi communities have been overlooked since it ...was assumed that Alevi women enjoy equal rights with men as Alevism promotes gender equality. This has left gender dynamics in Alevi communities relatively under-researched. In this article I aim to analyse the construction of an idealised image of Alevi woman through the analysis of 31 semi-structured interviews that I have conducted with women who have administrative roles in various cemevi in Istanbul. In most narratives there is a gap between the actual situation of Alevi women and the idealised Alevi woman; this gap is understood as a result of the patriarchal culture prevalent in the Middle East, the encounters with the Sunni majority and the weakening of Alevi traditions’ influence on individuals’ daily lives.
In How Informal Institutions Matter, Zeki Sarigil examines the role of informal institutions in sociopolitical life and addresses the following questions: Why and how do informal institutions emerge? ...To ask this differently, why do agents still create or resort to informal institutions despite the presence of formal institutional rules and regulations? How do informal institutions matter? What roles do they play in sociopolitical life? How can we classify informal institutions? What novel types of informal institutions can we identify and explain? How do informal institutions interact with formal institutions? How do they shape formal institutional rules, mechanisms, and outcomes? Finally, how do existing informal institutions change? What factors might trigger informal institutional change? In order to answer these questions, Sarigil examines several empirical cases of informal institution as derived from various issue areas in the Turkish sociopolitical context (i.e., civil law, conflict resolution, minority rights, and local governance) and from multiple levels (i.e., national and local).
This article compares and contrasts the shared and unshared functions of the Shiʿite elements within three separate but interconnected Buyruk texts. While introducing Shiʿite themes like the ...glorification of ʿAli and ahl al-bayt, the doctrine of the Imamate, and the matter of the 14 Impeccables applied in the Buyruks, with a comparative approach, this research will unpack the differences of their application in the Buyruks versus how they are perceived in the mainstream Shiʿite. This article will then draw attention to the fact that some of the fundamental Shiʿite doctrines are not acknowledged in the Buyruks including the belief in ʾismah, the concept of khalifa, the doctrine of tabarra and the notion of ghayba. In doing so, the following questions will guide this research: how do the Buyruks speak of Shiʿite motifs? Do those seemingly Shiʿite themes involved in the Buyruks lead Alevism to be labelled as Shiʿite and, if so, in what sense?
The article examines how public and audio-visual media presentations of Alevi-Bektashi ritual music and semahs in Bulgaria act as a bridge between the community and outsider audience. Special ...attention is paid to the advantages of using the innovative format of the virtual tour for revealing a little known and still somewhat closed ethno-religious minority that is apprehensive about outside scrutiny.
This article investigates the modes of interaction between the Ottoman state and the Kızılbaş and Nusayri communities in a comparative way. Both communities diverge from Hanafi-Sunnism, which was ...increasingly fashioned as the official Ottoman Islam in the course of the sixteenth century. Furthermore, both groups share a history of persecution, which has continued on and off until today and constitutes an important aspect of their respective identities. Yet persecution was but one side of the Ottoman treatment of both Kızılbaş and Nusayris: the state also integrated them into its administrative apparatus. Drawing on a variety of sources, this article seeks to identify different contexts in which the Kızılbaş and the Nusayris interacted with the Ottoman state and its local agents. The examples illustrate, on the one hand, how these groups were treated, labelled and thus perceived by the state and thereby accommodated to the Empire's apparatus of power. On the other hand, they also indicate the historical agency of the groups themselves. The findings presented here thus serve to revisit the history of these communities in the Ottoman Empire, which has for long been approached from the perspective of their persecution as 'heretics'.
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