ALEVISM THROUGH THE VOICES OF RELIGIOUS LEADERS
VIDEO INDEX
This section features short videos compiled from ethnographic interviews conducted by founding and editorial board members of the Alevi Encyclopedia, together with expert ethnographers, with Pirler (Dedeler, Babalar, Seyits) and Analar. The videos include narratives on the oral memory of Alevi culture, ritual discourse, emotions, symbols, and meaning-making, as well as on the cosmology and theology of Alevism. Each video is accompanied by a concise content description.
A
- A Cem and a Lesson in a Village of Dersim in the 1960s
- Abdal Musa – the Abdal Musa Cem – Görgü Cem – İkrar – Kurban (Ritual Sacrifice)
- Ağuçan Ocak
- Ağuiçen Ocak, Raa Haqi, Dersim Alevism, Kurmanci Prayer
- Alevi Organization and the Ocak System
- Alevi Organization in the Diaspora – Derviş Cemal Ocak, Turkmen and Kurdish Talips
- Alevis and the Cem Ritual: Meaning, Structure, and Transformation
- Alevism and Devriye: Death and “devri daim olsun”
- Analık & Pirlik Institution – the Fourth Gate of Hak
- Ancestor Worshipping in Alevism, Sacred Places (Jiare), Kalu Bela, and Devr-i Daim – Pir Cemal Cenan
- Awakening and Sealing the Delil/Çerağ: Number Symbolism in Alevism
B
- Baba Mansur Ocak
- Bağlama (the most important musical and ritual instrument)
- Becoming a Pir – Ecstasy in the Cem, the 48 Thursday Cem, Sarı Saltuk, and İtikat
- Becoming an Ana – the Institution of Analık – Gender & Kirmancki Prayers
- Becoming an Ana & Experiences and Challenges of Analık
C
- Cem / Cıvat, Musahiplik, Ana Kapısı in Alevism, Ağuçan Ocak
- Cem and Cemevis in Alevism
Ç
- Çerağ, Delil, Çerağ / Delil Uyandırma, Çerağ / Delil Sırlama, Hakikat
D
- Death and Devriye in Alevism, Hakikat, Sır, Alevi Cosmology, Çar Anasır, and Kalu Bela – Pir Ecevit Emre
- Derviş Cemal Ocak
- Derviş Cemal Ocak – Alevi Uprisings, the Bābāʾīs, and Ocak Organization
- Deyiş (Alevi Verses) – Hak (Conscience), Kırmancki Gülbenk, and Niyazlaşma
- Deyiş & Nefes
- Düşkünlük (Ethical Sanction / Ritual Suspension) and the Düşkün Ocak
- Düşkünlük Makamı (Ritual and Moral Exclusion)
F
- Four Gates, Forty Stations – The Four Sacred – Yol – Sır – İnsan-ı Kamil
- Funeral Ritual, Hakka Uğurlama
- Funeral Rituals in Alevism, Deyiş and Dua, and Mıle/Molla in the Dersim Alevi Tradition – Pir Cemal Cenan
G
- Gağan – Haftamal (Howtemal) – the Month of Xızır – Black Wednesday – Kirmancki Prayer
- Gağan, Khal u Fatık, Dersim, Raa Haqi, Nature and Alevism, and the Alevi Calendar – Pir Haydar Buğa
- Gağan, Kurmanci Prayers, Communal Village Life, and the Role of Women in Dersim Alevism
- Görgü Cemi, Dara Çıkma, Dardan İndirme, Aklanma–Paklanma, İkrar, Rızalık
- Gülbenk & Prayer in Alevism
- Gülbenk, Deyiş, Nefes, Raa Haqi, Dersim, and Kırmancki Prayer – Pir Haydar Buğa
- Güruh-u Naci / Naciye
H
- Hacı Bektaş Veli Lodge, the Dedegân and Babagân Branches, Talips, and Giving İkrar to the Lodge
- Hak – Hakikat – the Four Gates and Forty Stations – Sır – En el Hak
- Hak Lokması, Hakullah, Çıralık – Alevism, Christianity, and Islam
- Hakk & the Gate of Hakk
- Hakka Uğurlama – Death in Alevism – Devriye – Dardan İndirme
- Herdu Dewreş, Xızır/Hızır, Duzgı, Munzur, Dersim, Raa Haqi, and Kırmancki Prayer – Pir Haydar Buğa
İ
- İkrar – Görgü Cem – Musahip – Tarık – Social Change – the Hasan Baba Ziyaret
- İkrar – the Second Gate of Hak
- İkrar, Rızalık, Nature and Alevism, Domestic and Wild Animals, Rıza Şehri, and Lokma – Pir Ecevit Emre
- İnsan-ı Kâmil, the Four Gates and Forty Stations, and Enel Hak
I
- Institutional Alevism (Alevi Organization, Institutionalization, and Politics)
J
- Jiare (Ziyaret) Beliefs in Dersim Alevism (Raa Haqi) – Alevi Philosophy
- Jiare / Jare / Ziyaret – Feminine Sacred Places & the Dersim 38 Memorial (Berlin)
- Jiare and Xızır: Sacred Places in Raa Haqi
K
- Kalu Bela
- Karbala & Violence against Alevis
- Kemere Duzgı (Düzgün Baba) in Dersim Alevism (Raa Haqi) – Kırmancki Deyiş
- Kerbela – God (Hakk) and Human: Alevism and Islam
- Kerbela and the Christian Monk in Alevi Mythology
- Kirvelik and Musahiplik in Alevism
- Kırklar Cemi (The Cem of the Forty)
- Kurban (Sacrifice/Offering) in Alevism
- Kurban in Alevism
- Kureyş and Duzgı (Düzgün Baba) in Dersim Alevism (Raa Haqi), Kırmancki Deyiş and Prayer
- Kurmanci Prayers and Gülbenks, Prayers to the Sun and the Moon in Dersim
M
- Marriage and the Marriage Ceremony in Alevism, Musahiplik, and the Deyiş & Gülbenk Recited during the Ceremony
- Matem Ayı, Karbala, Resistance, and Alevi Uprisings – Pir Ecevit Emre
- Musahiplik – Marriage – Rızalık – İkrar – the Red Belt
- Musahiplik – Musahiplik Rituals – Görgü Cem – Ustudan – Social Change
- Musahiplik – The Görgü Cem & the Pir Gate (Pir Kapısı)
- Music in Alevism
N
- Naci and Naciye – The Enlightened Community – The Community of Light
- Nature and Alevis, Jiar u Diyar, Herd u Dewreş, Raa Haqi, Xızır/Hızır, Jiare, Ziyaret, and Sacred Place – Pir Haydar Buğa
- Nefes, Deyiş, Gülbenk, Ağıt, Mersiye, Klam
- Niyazlaşma (ritual greeting and salutation of the sacred in Alevism)
O
- Ocak-Based Alevism, Cemevis, and the Reconstruction of Tradition I
- Ocak-Based Alevism, Cemevis, and the Reconstruction of Tradition II
- Oral Culture, Deyiş, Nefes, Gülbenk, Mersiye, Duvaz, and Alevi Philosophy & Cosmology – Pir Ecevit Emre
- Ozan - Zakir - Aşık
P
- Pirship, Cem, and the Four Gates and Forty Stations
- Prayers, Addresses, and Narratives in Funeral Rituals (Kırmancki/Zazaki)
R
- Rıza Şehri – Rızalık & Social Change
S
- Sacrificial Practices in Alevism: Blood and Bloodless Offerings – Pir Haydar Buğa
- Saz – Music in Alevism – Tembur – Bağlama – Tandura/Dandura – Cura
- Secrecy (Sır) in Alevism, Numerical Symbolism, Kalu Bela, Alevi Philosophy, Truth (Hakikat), and Alevi Ethics – Pir Haydar Buğa
- Semah – Cem – Turna – the Cosmos / Universe
- Sır – Hakikat – Nesimi – Hallacı Mansur – Gurûh-ı Nâciye
T
- Taking Dem, Sâkilik, Taking Dem in the Cem Ritual, and Dem in Everyday Life – Baba Sedat Bican
- The Baba Mansur Ocak and the Kureyşan Ocak
- The Batın World – Jiares (Ziyarets) – the Dersim 38 Memorial – Berlin – Tarık
- The Belief in Devriye, “May the Cycle Continue” (Devri Daim Olsun), and the Phenomenon of Death in Alevism
- The Birth Gate – the First Gate of Hak
- The Cemal Abdal Ocak (Dersim) & Elif Ana
- The Cemal Abdal Ocak (Dersim) & the Aziz Mahmut Ocak (Diyarbakır)
- The Cult of Ana Fatma in Alevism
- The Dersim Alevi Calendar, Gağan, the Xızır/Hızır Fast, Hewtemal – Black Wednesday, and the Month of Mourning
- The Doctrine of the Four Gates and Forty Stations in Alevism (Şeriat, Tarikat, Marifet, Hakikat)
- The Four Elements, Çar Anasır, the Four Gates and Forty Stations in Alevism
- The Fourteen – the Seventeen – Musahip (Misayib) – Nefs
- The Gender of Cans
- The Institution of Analık – The Ocak System – Social Change
- The Kırklar, Selflessness, and Equality in Alevism
- The Narrative of Rıza Şehri (The City of Rıza)
- The Ocak Institution, İkrar, Marriage in Alevism, Alevi Ethics, and Alevism and Islam
- The Ocak System and the External Experience of Alevism
- The Ocak System and the Institution of Analık – the Kureyşan & Baba Mansur Ocaks
- The Ocak System in Alevism
- The Ocak System, Mısayb (Musahip), and Being Raised within a Pir Ocak
- The Service of Ocak Households to Talips and the Role of Women in Dersim Alevism
- The Third Gate of Hak (Wayir–Sahip–Xudê)
W
- What Is Alevism? – Alevis and Islam: İkrar, Hakikat, Devriye
- What Is Alevism? & What Is Hakk?
- Women in Alevism: Ana, Religious Authority, and Social Role
X
- Xızır (Hızır) Months (Üç Aylar) and Fasts in Dersim Alevism (Raa Haqi), Kurmanci Prayers
- Xızır (Hızır), Kırmancki Deyiş, Dersim Alevism (Raa Haqi)
- Xızır (Hızır), Xızır Fast – Xızır Lokması – Xızır Kurbanı – Ab-ı Hayat
- Xızır and İlyas & Hıdırellez
Y
- Yas-ı Matem Ritual Practices in Dersim Alevism (Raa Haq), Kerbela, and the Hüseyni Duruş
Z
- Zahir, Batın, and Devriye: Cosmology and Morality in Alevism
- Zeynel Abidin in Alevi Mythology – Oppression and Resistance
