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Kurdish Studies Archive
Vol. 8 No. 1 2020. Special Issue: Alevi Kurds: History, Politics and Identity
Kurdish Studies Archive publishes the content of volumes 1 to 10 of Kurdish Studies. This interdisciplinary and peer-reviewed journal was dedicated to publishing high-quality research and scholarship. Since 2023 the journal has been continued as the new Kurdish Studies Journal, published by Brill, and focuses on research, scholarship, and debates in the field of Kurdish studies in a multidisciplinary fashion covering a wide range of topics including, but not limited to, economics, history, society, gender, minorities, politics, health, law, environment, language, media, culture, arts, and education.
Editorial
Alevi Kurds: History, Politics and Identity
âUmit Cetin, Celia Jenkins, and Suavi Aydın
Interview
Alevi Kurds: History, Politics, Identity, Migration and Identity: An Interview with Martin van Bruinessen
âUmit Cetin, Celia Jenkins, and Suavi Aydın
Research articles
A Survey of the Roots and History of Kurdish Alevism: What are the Divergences and Convergences between Kurdish Alevi Groups in Turkey?
âSuavi Aydın
Reflections on the 19th Century Missionary Reports as Sources for the History of the (Kurdish) Kizilbash
âAyfer Karakaya-Stump
Political Representation of Alevi Kurds in Turkey: Historical Trends and Main Transformations
âCengiz Gunes
The Struggle to Unite Diaspora Alevis and the Working Class: Alevism in the Kavga/Kervan Magazine
âTuncay Bilecen
Diasporic Homeland, Rise of Identity and New Traditionalism: The Case of the British Alevi Festival
âCemal Salman
Language Attitudes and Religion: Kurdish Alevis in the UK
âBirgul Yilmaz
âAspirational Capitalâ and Transformations in First-generation Alevi-Kurdish Parentsâ Involvement with Their Childrenâs Education in the UK
âCelia Jenkins
Unregulated Desires: Anomie, the âRainbow Underclassâ and Second-generation Alevi Kurdish Gangs in London
âUmit Cetin
Book reviews
Michael M. Gunter (ed.), Routledge Handbook on the Kurds
âMartin van Bruinessen
Kardo Bokani, Social Communication and Kurdish Political Mobilisation in Turkey
âMichael M. Gunter
Emel Elif Tugdar and Serhun Al (eds.), Comparative Kurdish Politics in the Middle East: Actors, Ideas, and Interests
âJoost Jongerden
Christoph Markiewicz, The Crisis of Kingship in Late Medieval Islam: Persian Emigres and the Making of Ottoman Sovereignty
âMichiel Leezenberg
Thomas Schmidinger, The Battle for the Mountain of the Kurds: Self-Determination and Ethnic Cleansing in the Afrin Region of Rojava
âStanley Thangaraj
Scholars and students of Kurdish Studies in all its aspects such as culture, history, society, politics, economics, religions, and languages.