TURKISH ALEVISM: RELIGIOUS IDENTIFICATION
Alevis are forming a large religious community in Turkey. According to different estimations they compose 10 up to 20% of the country’s population. Their system of religious belief is called Alevism which is one of the heterodox Muslim sects. Formation of Alevism has completed in Anatolia in the XVI...
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MGIMO University Press
2013-10-01
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Online Access: | https://www.vestnik.mgimo.ru/jour/article/view/1215 |