TY - BOOK AU - Bruinessen,Martin van TI - Kurdish Studies Archive: Vol. 8 No. 1 2020. Special Issue: Alevi Kurds: History, Politics and Identity T2 - Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2025 SN - 9789004700369 AV - DR435.K87 U1 - 956.6/703 23 PY - 2020/// CY - Leiden, Boston PB - Brill KW - Kurds KW - Autonomy and independence movements N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Editorial -- Alevi Kurds: History, Politics and Identity -- Umit Cetin, Celia Jenkins, and Suavi Aydın -- Interview -- Alevi Kurds: History, Politics, Identity, Migration and Identity: An Interview with Martin van Bruinessen -- Umit 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? -- Suavi Aydın -- Reflections on the 19th Century Missionary Reports as Sources for the History of the (Kurdish) Kizilbash -- Ayfer Karakaya-Stump -- Political Representation of Alevi Kurds in Turkey: Historical Trends and Main Transformations -- Cengiz Gunes -- The Struggle to Unite Diaspora Alevis and the Working Class: Alevism in the Kavga/Kervan Magazine -- Tuncay Bilecen -- Diasporic Homeland, Rise of Identity and New Traditionalism: The Case of the British Alevi Festival -- Cemal Salman -- Language Attitudes and Religion: Kurdish Alevis in the UK -- Birgul Yilmaz -- “Aspirational Capital” and Transformations in First-generation Alevi-Kurdish Parents’ Involvement with Their Children’s Education in the UK -- Celia Jenkins -- Unregulated Desires: Anomie, the “Rainbow Underclass” and Second-generation Alevi Kurdish Gangs in London -- Umit Cetin -- Book reviews -- Michael M. Gunter (ed.), Routledge Handbook on the Kurds -- Martin van Bruinessen -- Kardo Bokani, Social Communication and Kurdish Political Mobilisation in Turkey -- Michael M. Gunter -- Emel Elif Tugdar and Serhun Al (eds.), Comparative Kurdish Politics in the Middle East: Actors, Ideas, and Interests -- Joost Jongerden -- Christoph Markiewicz, The Crisis of Kingship in Late Medieval Islam: Persian Emigres and the Making of Ottoman Sovereignty -- Michiel Leezenberg -- Thomas Schmidinger, The Battle for the Mountain of the Kurds: Self-Determination and Ethnic Cleansing in the Afrin Region of Rojava -- Stanley Thangaraj N2 - 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 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004700369 ER -