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The Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig has admitted a major new long-term research project to the German Academies Programme: “Alevitisches Archiv: Ethnohistory of Alevi Communities in Anatolia, 16th–20th Century.” The project is directed by Markus Dreßler, Professor of Modern Turkish Studies at the University of Leipzig.
The project aims to reconstruct the historical development of Alevi communities across central, eastern, and southeastern Anatolia from the early modern period to the twentieth century. Adopting an ethnohistorical approach, the research will combine Ottoman archival sources, Alevi manuscripts, and ethnographic materials—including aspects of material culture—in order to analyse processes of communal formation and the relationships between Alevi actors, state authorities, and non-Alevi neighbours in a long-term perspective.
A central component of the project will be the creation of a partly public research database, designed to support systematic data collection and long-term analysis. The initiative also includes collaborations with German and international partners, as well as exchanges with Alevi institutions and archives.
As one of the few large-scale, academy-funded projects dedicated to the historical study of Alevism, the “Alevitisches Archiv” marks an important milestone for the institutionalisation and international visibility of Alevi Studies.
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