- Pir Haydar Buğa
Sacrificial Practices in Alevism: Blood and Bloodless Offerings – Pir Haydar Buğa
In this video, Pir Haydar Buğa examines sacrificial rituals (kurban) in Alevism and the phenomenon of sacrifice within a multilayered framework of belief and meaning....
- Pir Hasan Hayri Şanlı
Kurban (Sacrifice/Offering) in Alevism
In this video, Pir Hasan Hayri Şanlı discusses the understanding of kurban in Alevi belief and its meaning within the path. It is emphasized that...
- Pir Hasan Hayri Şanlı
Kırklar Cemi (The Cem of the Forty)
In this video, Pir Hasan Hayri Şanlı discusses the narrative of Kırklar Cemi and the participation of Hz. Muhammad in the Assembly of the Forty...
- Ana Didar Cenan
Kurmanci Prayers and Gülbenks, Prayers to the Sun and the Moon in Dersim
In this video, Ana Didar Cenan examines the tradition of prayers and gülbenks in Dersim Alevism (Raa Haqi), with a particular focus on prayers addressed...
- Pir Zeynel Abidin Koç
Institutional Alevism (Alevi Organization, Institutionalization, and Politics)
In this video, the ways in which processes of institutionalization in Alevi belief intersect with social change are examined. Efforts to standardize cem and hakka...
- Pir Veli Uğur
Kerbela – God (Hakk) and Human: Alevism and Islam
In this video, Pir Veli Uğur offers an in-depth account of the place of Kerbela in the Alevi world of belief and how it has...
- Pir Celal Fırat
Kalu Bela
In this video, Pir Celal Fırat explains the concept of Kalu Bela, one of the foundational mythological narratives of Alevi cosmology. According to the Alevi...
- Pir Celal Fırat
Karbala & Violence against Alevis
In this video, Pir Celal Fırat provides an in-depth explanation of the historical and symbolic meanings of the event of Karbala within the Alevi belief...
