The Sufi Mystical Idiom in Alevi Aşık Poetry: Flexibility, Adaptation and Meaning
The Alevi tradition in Turkey is characterized by a profoundly mystical religious worldview. Its poetic culture, aşıklık, is heavily influenced by the language and mystical motifs of Persian Sufism. Yet whilst the major precepts of Sufi theology and ritual practice undeniably constitute an important...
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| Language: | English |
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Association pour la Recherche sur le Moyen-Orient
2013-01-01
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| Series: | European Journal of Turkish Studies |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/ejts/4683 |