Writing Religion

Markus Dressler is currently Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Göttingen.

• Acknowledgements ; Prologue: Alevism Contested ; Introduction: Genealogies and Significations ; Part 1: Missionaries, Nationalists, and the Kizilbas-Alevis ; Chapter 1: The Western Discovery of the Kizilbas-Alevis ; Chapter 2: Nationalism, Religion, and Inter-Communal Violence ; Chapter 3: Entering the Gaze of the Nationalists ; Part 2: Mehmed Fuad Koprulu (1890-1966) and the Conceptualization of Inner-Islamic Difference ; Chapter 4: Nationalism, Historiography, and Politics ; Chapter 5: Religiography: Taxonomies of Essences and Differences ; Chapter 6: Alevi and Alevilik in the Work of Fuad Koprulu and His Legacy ; Conclusion: Tropes of Difference and Sameness - The Making of Alevism as a Modernist Project Notes ; Bibliography ; Index

Markus Dressler s work is absolutely brilliant in its critical and elaborate reading of the ways in which the Alevi identity in Turkey has been historically and politically constructed.