{
 "id": "group/alevism",
 "class": "group",
 "slug": "alevism",
 "label": {
  "ar": "العلوية الأناضولية",
  "en": "Alevism",
  "ur": "علویت"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "العلوية تيار ديني وثقافي أناضولي يتمحور حول التولي لعلي وأهل البيت؛ يميز الدارسون بين تشكلها الحديث كفئة وبين جذورها في الحركات الغلاة والنصيرية التي تعالجها كتب الملل القديمة {cite:dressler-writing-religion-2013} {cite:milal-nihal-shahrastani}.",
  "en": "Alevism is an Anatolian religious-cultural current centred on devotion to Ali and the ahl al-bayt; scholars distinguish its modern formation as a category from its roots in the ghulat and Nusayri currents treated by the classical heresiographies {cite:dressler-writing-religion-2013} {cite:milal-nihal-shahrastani}."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "people"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "anatolia-balkans"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/gunpowder-empires",
  "period/modern-era"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "minorities-within-islam",
  "sects-and-schools"
 ],
 "data": {
  "kind": "community-organisation",
  "external_ids": {
   "wikidata": "Q137097"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/dressler-writing-religion-2013",
   "source/milal-nihal-shahrastani"
  ],
  "perspectives": [
   {
    "tradition": "sunni",
    "id": "sunni-classification",
    "stance": {
     "ar": "فرقة غلاة تُدرج في كتب الملل مع المرتبطين بالنصيرية",
     "en": "An extremist sect classed in the heresiographies alongside the Nusayri-related currents"
    },
    "summary": {
     "ar": "تعالج كتب الملل عند الشهرستاني الحركات المرتبطة بالغلو في علي — ومنها النصيرية — ضمن فرق الغلاة {cite:milal-nihal-shahrastani}؛ وعلى هذا التصنيف تقيس المصنفات السنية موقع العلوية الحديثة مع ملاحظة الفارق التاريخي.",
     "en": "Shahrastani's heresiography treats the currents linked to extremism concerning Ali — the Nusayriyya among them — among the ghulat sects {cite:milal-nihal-shahrastani}; Sunni classifications locate modern Alevism against that classical grid while noting the historical distance."
    },
    "sources": [
     "source/milal-nihal-shahrastani"
    ]
   },
   {
    "tradition": "academic",
    "id": "academic-formation",
    "stance": {
     "en": "A modern identity category forged in late-Ottoman and Turkish nation-making, over older Qizilbash and saint-lineage layers"
    },
    "summary": {
     "en": "Scholarship describes 'Alevism' as a category consolidated in the late Ottoman and republican Turkish context, layered over older Qizilbash loyalty and ocak saint-lineages rather than a timeless sect {cite:dressler-writing-religion-2013}."
    },
    "sources": [
     "source/dressler-writing-religion-2013"
    ]
   },
   {
    "tradition": "other",
    "id": "self-description",
    "stance": {
     "ar": "طريق علي: تولي أهل البيت عبر سلاسل الأولياء (أوجاق) ومجالس الجم",
     "en": "The path of Ali: devotion to the ahl al-bayt through saintly ocak lineages and cem gatherings"
    },
    "summary": {
     "en": "Practitioners describe Alevism as the path of loyalty to Ali and the ahl al-bayt transmitted through hereditary ocak saint-lineages, centred on the cem assembly rather than the mosque {cite:dressler-writing-religion-2013}."
    },
    "sources": [
     "source/dressler-writing-religion-2013"
    ]
   }
  ],
  "sensitivity": "contested",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "wikidata-import deferred Q137097; contested: classical Shahrastani (Nusayriyya verified in OCR) + academic fallback",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 Medium)",
   "run": "wd-deferred-10"
  },
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 2,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 Medium)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "العلوية تيار ديني وثقافي أناضولي يتمحور حول التولي لعلي وأهل البيت وسلاسل الأوجاق ومجالس الجم {cite:dressler-writing-religion-2013}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "الآراء",
     "markdown": "- **التصنيف السني:** تُدرج الحركات المرتبطة بالغلو في علي — ومنها النصيرية — ضمن فرق الغلاة في كتب الملل عند الشهرستاني {cite:milal-nihal-shahrastani}.\n- **البحث الأكاديمي:** «العلوية» فئة تبلورت في سياق العثمانيين المتأخر والجمهورية التركية فوق طبقات الولاء القزلباشي وأنساب الأولياء {cite:dressler-writing-religion-2013}.\n- **وصفها لنفسها:** طريق علي — تولي أهل البيت عبر أنساب الأوجاق الوراثية ومجلس الجم بدل المسجد {cite:dressler-writing-religion-2013}."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "group/alevism",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-22"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Alevism is an Anatolian religious-cultural current centred on devotion to Ali and the ahl al-bayt, ocak saint-lineages and the cem assembly {cite:dressler-writing-religion-2013}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Perspectives",
     "markdown": "- **Sunni classification:** the currents linked to extremism concerning Ali — the Nusayriyya among them — are classed among the ghulat in Shahrastani's heresiography {cite:milal-nihal-shahrastani}.\n- **Academic:** 'Alevism' is a category consolidated in the late-Ottoman and Turkish republican context over Qizilbash loyalty and saint-lineage layers {cite:dressler-writing-religion-2013}.\n- **Self-description:** the path of Ali — devotion to the ahl al-bayt through hereditary ocak lineages and the cem, not the mosque {cite:dressler-writing-religion-2013}."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "group/alevism",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Devin (SWE-2 Medium), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-22"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "علویت اناطولیہ کا ایک مذہبی و ثقافتی رجحان ہے جو علی اور اہلِ بیت سے عقیدت، اوجاق اولیاء کے نسب اور مجلسِ جمع پر محیط ہے {cite:dressler-writing-religion-2013}۔"
    },
    {
     "heading": "نقطہ ہائے نظر",
     "markdown": "- **سنی درجہ بندی:** علی کے بارے میں غلو سے منسلک تحریکیں — جن میں نصیریہ بھی ہے — شہرستانی کی کتبِ ملل میں فرقۂ غلات میں شمار ہوتی ہیں {cite:milal-nihal-shahrastani}۔\n- **علمی نقطہ نظر:** «علویت» ایک ایسی کیٹیگری ہے جو پس عثمانی اور ترک جمہوری سیاق میں قزلباش وفاداری اور اولیاء نسبوں کی تہوں پر مجتمع ہوئی {cite:dressler-writing-religion-2013}۔\n- **اپنی تعریف:** راہِ علی — موروثی اوجاق نسبوں اور مجلسِ جمع کے ذریعے اہلِ بیت سے ولایت، مسجد کے بجائے {cite:dressler-writing-religion-2013}۔"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "group/alevism",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Devin (SWE-2 Medium), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-22"
  }
 },
 "degree": 0,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-22",
 "connections": [],
 "related": [
  "group/ibadiyya",
  "group/ismaili-dawa",
  "group/jafari-madhhab",
  "group/kaysaniyya",
  "group/zaydiyya",
  "building/al-kadhimiya-mosque",
  "building/imam-husayn-shrine",
  "concept/ahl-al-ahwa"
 ],
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}