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Balkan Alevi and Bektashi Identities by Саша Паповић is a document available to read on EtoBox.
This document discusses competing identities among Balkan Alevi and Bektashi communities in the post-Ottoman period. It notes that these communities underwent transformation and re-conceptualization of their identities as the Ottoman Empire fragmented. However, they have remained under-researched compared to Alevi groups in Turkey. The document calls for more comparative study of how Alevi and Bektashi groups in the Balkans and Anatolia navigated the pressures of modernization after the Ottoman period to be
- Author
- Саша Паповић
- Language
- EN