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The book is the first detailed study on the Nusayri-Alawi community of Cilicia available in a Western language. The Alawis are an Arabic speaking religious minority of ca. 300,000 people living in the Turkish provinces of Adana and Mersin. The book contains chapters devoted to the history of Alawi settlement, the community's identity and social structures, and prejudices they have to face from the majority population. Also covered are religious practices like feasts and beliefs like metempsychosis. The heart of the book is an analysis of the numerous Alawi sanctuaries. Long-term field research enabled the authors to document a vital, highly mobile practice of saint veneration performed at co...
Benim dönemimde, benim kuşağımdan insanların ünlenmesi için çok ilginç bişey, biraz da ayıp doğrusu, hapisaneye girmesi gerekliydi. Bu ressamlar için de, şairler için de böyleydi. Ressama düşmandır bu millet, yazara düşmandır ama müzisyenin farkında değildir. O çalarken, öttürürken, bana muhalif mi değil mi, farkına varmaz. Liman sergisinde adamları orağa, çekice benziyor diye takibata uğratmışlardı. Benim dönemimde böyleydi, hatta hapisaneye girmemiş olanı yazar saymazlardı. Bu tabii devletin sisteminin ayıbıydı...
While creating the repertoire of exemplary works of the makams and other sections, care has been taken to ensure that the book can also serve as a guide, bedside and textbook wherever Turkish music education is given, from the perspective of an artist-educator. We believe that it will fill the deficit of textbooks, which is seen as a great need, especially in conservatories, institutions that train music teachers, and Turkish music lessons. We also think that our book will be useful in Turkish music lessons in terms of program model, method, subject, content and knowledge.
The author, Professor Z. V. Togan, staged a counterrevolution, who first interacted and bargained with Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky and the rest of the Soviet and Bolshevik luminaries of his own time for Baskurdistan and Turkistan. It can be read profitably in the context of anti-colonialism, Sub-altern studies, Russian and Soviet studies.