What is the role of aesthetics – i.e. the enjoyment of the senses – within the cem ceremony performed by men and women adopting a specific notion of self-discipline? In order to […]
D Yrd. Doç. Dr. Meryem Müzeyyen Fındıkgil Zahlreiche, das Stadtbild Istanbuls bis heute prägende, öffentliche Gebäude tragen die Handschrift deutscher Architekten aus dem neunzehnten Jahrhundert. Die Architekturhistorikern, Frau Dr. Meryem […]
Over the last decades, the performing arts played a crucial role in the implementation of Alevi visibility in Turkey as well as abroad. Whereas music and sound played a major […]
Türkiye’de yaşayan Alevi topluluklarında müzik icrasının boyutlarının tartışılacağı bu sunumda, müzik terminolojisinden çalgılara, müzik icrasından edebi içeriğe kadar geniş bir kavramsal çerçevede “Alevi müziği” konusu irdelenecektir. Özellikle müziğin, Alevi kültürü […]
With a large part of Alevi traditions in today’s Dersim/Tunceli hardly being practiced anymore, most contemporary singers of the region are deeply influenced by the beliefs and aesthetics of the […]
The study of manuscripts from Alevi communities has undergone a remarkable upswing over the last decades. Increasingly, we learn more about the predominantly religious knowledge that was preserved in writing. […]
Born and raised on the peripheries of the Russian Empire, Ahmet Caferoğlu studied Oriental Linguistics and Literature at the universities of Baku, Istanbul, Berlin, and Breslau. From 1929 up to […]
Alevi ritual practice is a significant means in (re)producing a specific Alevi habitus and cultural identity. It is well known that the cem ritual and the emblematic semah were formative […]
As the second-oldest branch of Experimental Psychology, the Psychology of Aesthetics investigates the multi-factorial determination of aesthetic appreciation and production. Having focused on various questions in the visual arts, manuscripts […]
Georg Steinbach’s War Memoirs recounts the experiences of a German soldier deployed to Istanbul during the First World War. In the spring of 1918, as a 19-year old conscript, Steinbach […]
The so-called ‚Oxford Anonymous chronicle‘ is a comprehensive history of the Ottoman dynasty in Turkish, compiled from various sources to tell the story of the dynasty from its rise to the year 1484 (AH […]