Foto: Markus Dreßler
The project
The “Alevitische Bibliothek” (Alevi Library) is a collection of publications on Alevism curated by Markus Dreßler (University of Leipzig), Janina Karolewski (University of Hamburg) and Benjamin Weineck (University of Heidelberg) in cooperation with the Specialised Information Service (FID) Middle East-, North Africa- and Islamic Studies.
Initially, the collection comprises academic literature available online. In the future, the collection will focus on works by non-academic local historians and ethnographers (araştırmacı-yazar), gray literature, journals and editions of manuscripts. The successively growing collection makes primary and secondary sources that are difficult to access available to the interested public and is intended to serve as a research tool for the international field of Alevi studies in particular.