ENTRY INDEX
This section presents entries that have been prepared in accordance with encyclopedic writing principles and content criteria, following evaluation and approval by the Editorial Board and the Scientific Advisory Board of the Alevi Encyclopedia. The materials include texts derived from existing academic studies, revised and updated, or newly authored for the Encyclopedia. Together, these entries aim to provide a reliable and up-to-date reference resource on conceptual, historical, religious, social, and cultural aspects of Alevism.
A
- “Arabistancı Nusayris / Arab Alevis”: Migrant Labour, Masculinity, and Gender— PhD Candidate Dicle Paşa
- A Brief History of Bağlama— Erkan Çanakçı
- A Brief Sketch of the Development of Alevi Studies— Emeritus Prof. Martin van Bruinessen
- Ağuiçen/Ağuçan— Ayfer Karakaya-Stump
- Ahl-é Haqq (Ehli Heq, Ahl-é-Haqîqat, Yarsanism, Kaka‘i)— Prof. Dr. Tessa Hofmann
- Ahl-e Haqq (Yarsanism)— Karol Kaczorowski
- Alawi Massacres in Syria: The Historical Roots of the HTS Regime's Genocidal Intent— Prof. Dr. Mehmet Ugur
- Alawiness (Arap Alevism) and The Production of Space— Dr. Sonmez Alvanoğlu Yolcu
- Alawite (Nusayrism)— Volkan Ertit
- Alevi Studies and Debates on "Orthodoxy" & "Heterodoxy" — Dr. Ahmet Kerim Gültekin
- Alevi Studies and Syncretism— Dr. Ahmet Kerim Gültekin
- Alevi Television Networks: Media and Alevism— Nazlı Özkan
- Alevi Television Networks: Structural and Representational Limits in Covering Discrimination— Nazlı Özkan
- Alevi-Bektaşi— Cem Kara
- Alevis and Alevism in Turkish Cinema— İhsan Koluaçık
- Alevis and Civil Society— Jeremy Francis Walton
- Alevis’ Struggles for Rights: A Human Rights Law Perspective— Melih Uğraş Erol
- Alevism and Sacred Texts in Kurdish Batinism— Mehmet Bayrak
- Alevism and Neo-Ottomanism— Jeremy Francis Walton
- Alevism and Social Trauma— Filiz Çelik
- Alevism Lessons in British Schools: Inclusion through religious education— Assoc. Prof. Ümit Çetin
- Apsu (Abşu, Avsu)— Erdal Gezik
- Arab Alevism— Dr. Sonmez Alvanoğlu Yolcu
- Arab Alevism and the Symbolic Construction of Gender within the Community— PhD Candidate Dicle Paşa
B
- Bext (Baht)— Erdal Gezik
C
- Can— Samuel Vock-Verley
- Cem Ceremony as a Conflict Resolution Method— Dr. Aynur Ünal
- Cem Ritual and Psychological Well-Being: A Social Identity Perspective— MA Ege Akpınar
Ç
- Çepni Alevis— Dr. Mustafa Aslan
D
- Dâr (Dâra Durmak, Dâra Çekilmek, Dârdan İndirme, Dâr Kurbanı)— Dr. Ahmet Kerim Gültekin
- Dedes: Transformation of Religious Leadership in the Alevi Community— Dr. Deniz Coşan Eke
- Dersim - Jiar u Diyar (Sacred Geography)— Dr. Ahmet Kerim Gültekin
- Dersim Massacre and Intergenerational Trauma Transmission— Filiz Çelik
- Dersim: Genocides (1914-18 & 1937-38)— Prof. Dr. Tessa Hofmann
- Deyiş — Fatma Gülâra Işık Tuğcu
E
- Environmental Ethics in Alevism: the Case of Dersim— Dr. Hayal Hanoğlu
F
- Firik Dede— Dr. Ahmet Kerim Gültekin
- Food in Alevism— Samuel Vock-Verley
- Forced Migration of Alevis— Zana Kibar
G
- Gağan (1)— Dr. Ahmet Kerim Gültekin
- Gağan (2)— Prof. Dr. Tessa Hofmann
- Genocide— Christian Gudehus
- Güruh-u Naci The Creation Myth in Raa Haqi (Dersim Alevism)— Dr. Ahmet Kerim Gültekin
H
- Hacı Bektaş Veli Tomb and Museum— Rabia Harmanşah
- Hako Sûr: A Springtime Ritual among Kurdish Alevis & Armenians in Dersim— Dr. Ahmet Kerim Gültekin
- Historiography of Bektashism— Cem Kara
- Hızır / Xızır— Samuel Vock-Verley
- Humor in Dersim Alevi Oral Culture— Özlem Atik
I
- Indigeneity and Alevism— Dr. Aynur Ünal
J
- Jiare /Ziyaret - (Sacred Places & Objects) in Raa Haqi (Dersim Alevism)— Dr. Ahmet Kerim Gültekin
K
- Kadıncık Ana— Kıymet Erzincan Kına
- Kırkbudak - Journal of Anatolian Folk Beliefs (2005-2007)— Dr. Ahmet Kerim Gültekin
- Kurdish Alevis (Postscript to a TAVO Article [1989] - Revisited) — Dr. Peter Bumke
M
- Mehmet Yıldırım (Dêsimli Memed)— Dr. Ahmet Kerim Gültekin
- Memory and Dersim— Zana Kibar
- Mobilisation for Alevi Identity in Britain— Ayşegül Akdemir Son
- Mountains and Fire Worship: Sacred Peaks and Fiery Rituals: Tracing the Pre-Christian Roots of Dersim’s Alevi Beliefs— Prof. Dr. Tessa Hofmann
- Musahiplik: The Institution of Spritual Brotherhood in Alevism— PhD Candidate Elif YÖNDEN
- Music of the Zaza— Martin Greve
N
- Necropolitical Violence and Alevis— PhD Candidate Sercan Karlıdağ
- Nusayris' Funeral Rituals— Volkan Ertit
P
- Paradise Rivers & Munzur River in Dersim— Prof. Dr. Tessa Hofmann
- Pomegranates: Ambivalent Symbol of Life and Death— Prof. Dr. Tessa Hofmann
R
- Reflexivity in Alevi Studies— Dr. Deniz Coşan Eke
- Remembered and Contemporary Humor Narratives in Dersim— Özlem Atik
Ş
- Şavak Tribe: Alevi–Sunni Nomadic Community of Dersim— Dr. Ahmet Kerim Gültekin
S
- Secularization of Alevis— Volkan Ertit
- Seyit Rıza Monument (Dersim)— Zana Kibar
- Seyyid Seyfeddin (Piri Sevdin) Ocak (Alevi sacred lineage)— Dr. Ali Eren Demir
- Shahmaran and Shahapet: The Snake Cults of the Kurds, Yazidis, and Armenians— Prof. Dr. Tessa Hofmann
- Sivas Massacre (2 July 1993)— Besim Can ZIRH
- Social Justice and Alevis: Multidimensional Identity, Forgiveness, and Solidarity— Assoc. Prof. Özden Melis Uluğ
- Sociology of Emotions and Collective Memory in the Deyişes of Pir Sultan Abdal— Dr. Ali Eren Demir
- Space in Alevism— Cemal Salman
- Splendor and Light of God: Sun Worship Among the Raa Haq Followers and Their Neighbors— Prof. Dr. Tessa Hofmann
- Suicide Amongst Second-Generation Alevi Boys in the UK— Assoc. Prof. Ümit Çetin
T
- Tertele— Zana Kibar
- Tevhids and Münacats: A General Overview— Erkan Çanakçı
- The Cami - Cemevi Project— Deniz Parlak
- The Diversity of the Alevi Diaspora— Tufan Bozkurt
- The Ghadir Khumm Festival (ʿId al-Ghadir) and Collective Memory— Dr. Sonmez Alvanoğlu Yolcu
- The Hacı Bektaş-ı Veli Dergah— Dilek Kızıldağ
- The Identity Repertoire of Alevis and Shared Humanity— PhD Candidate Sercan Karlıdağ
- The Kerbela Narrative and Collective Mourning: Traumatic Memory and Ritualised Emotions in Alevî Identity— Dr. Ali Eren Demir
- The Religious Calendar in Dersim Alevism (Raa Haqi): Gağan, Xızır/Hızır, Black Wednesday (Kara Çarşamba), and Hawtemal/Heftemal— Erdal Gezik
- The Şîn Tradition: Lament as Memory and Resistance in Kurdish Alevism— Mehmet Bayrak
- The Speaking Qur'an (Kur'an-ı Natık) and the Alevis’ Relationship to the Qur'an— Zeynep Oktay
- Theological Foundations of Human Dignity in Alevism— İmran Gürtaş
- Traces of Yaresan–Alevism in Pre-Islamic Kurdish Poetry— Mehmet Bayrak
- Transnational Alevism— Dr. Hayal Hanoğlu
- Tree worship: Sacred Trees and Wishing Trees— Prof. Dr. Tessa Hofmann
U
- Unclehood (Seyyidship in Arab Alevism)— Volkan Ertit
V
- Village Cemevis and Transnational Alevi Placemaking— Dr. Hayal Hanoğlu
W
- Women in Alevism— Dr. Hayal Hanoğlu
X
- Xızır's (Hızır's) Sacred Herd (Bezoar Goats of Dersim)— Prof. Dr. Tessa Hofmann
- Xızır's (Hızır's) Sacred Herd (Sacred Mountain Goats of Dersim)— Samuel Vock-Verley
Z
- Zazaki in the Context of Alevism— MA Mesut Asmên Keskin