Nationalist Alevi Bektashi Cultural Associations information

The Nationalist Alevi Bektashi Cultural Associations (Turkish: Milliyetçi Alevi Bektaşi Kültür Dernekleri) is a Turkish ultranationalist union of various...

the Alevi order in influence. Bektashis would center their beliefs around the dargah which emerged as an Ottoman institution, but Kurdish Alevis continued...

of the rural Alevis; and the Babagan, those faithful to the path "Yol evlâdları" (children of the path) who dominated the official Bektashi Sufi order with...

billion in 2012, finance only Sunni Muslim worship. Sufi orders like Alevi-Bektashi, Bayrami-Jelveti, Halveti (Gulshani, Jerrahi, Nasuhi, Rahmani, Sunbuli...

Bektashi tekkes in the South and Catholic churches in the North were both used by the nationalist movement as places of dissemination of nationalist ideals...

and cultural rights of non-Muslim minorities. In practice, Turkey only recognizes Greek, Armenian, and Jewish religious minorities. Alevi, Bektashi, and...

ISBN 9781526117021. Stoyanov, Yuri (2012). "Contested Post-Ottoman Alevi and Bektashi Identities in the Balkans and their Shi'ite Component". In Ridgeon...

movements. Some of in-group competition exist between Sunni Turks and Alevi/Kızılbashi/Bektashi. The Kızılbashi, a minority within a minority, have freely practiced...

central and western Anatolia. They speak an argot of their own and are Alevis. Afghans are one of the largest irregular migrant groups in Turkey. From...

inhabited by Sunnis, Christians, and Ismailis. They are often confused with the Alevis, a distinct religious sect in Turkey. Alawites identify as a separate ethnoreligious...

2013 ISBN 978-0-748-67753-5 page 255 John Shindeldecker: Turkish Alevis Today: II Alevi Population Size and Distribution Archived 30 November 2016 at the...

ISBN 9781135235857. Stoyanov, Yuri (2012). "Contested Post-Ottoman Alevi and Bektashi Identities in the Balkans and their Shi'ite Component". In Ridgeon...

Beyoğlu, the Yahya Effendi Tekke in Beşiktaş, and the Bektashi Tekke in Kadıköy, which now serves Alevi Muslims as a Cem Evi. As the years passed the population...

ground in Ottoman lands; many Sufi religious orders (tariqa), such as the Bektashi and Mevlevi, were either established, or saw significant growth, throughout...

and orders. The Bektashi were closely affiliated with the Ottoman Janissaries and are the heart of Turkey's large and mostly liberal Alevi population. They...

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considered by some to have been an Alevi, while the entire Turkish aşık/ozan tradition is permeated with the thought of the Bektashi Sufi order, which is itself...

Congress and former Libyan head of state. Moufdi Zakaria, writer and nationalist, author of Kassaman the Algerian national anthem Ghalib Alhinai, last...

missionaries on Turkey's Alevi population has been a concern since the era of Committee of Union and Progress rule. In 2016 the Association of Protestant Churches...

Iraq and subsequent Iraqi Civil War they have been targeted by Iraqi nationalists who accused them of being Saudis on the grounds that Ahmad al-Ahsai was...