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in time to the music and sway their bodies slightly, the Dance of the Forty (Kırklar Semah), the
Dance of the Cranes (Turnalar Semah) and prayer formulas.
Alevis have a significant role in Turkish music and poetry. Pir Sultan Abdal, a 16th century Alevi
poet whose poems and songs often contain spiritual themes, is revered as a saint and hero.
Important figures are the Sufi poet Yunus Emre, widely regarded as having been Alevi, and
Kaygusuz Abdal. Their poems shape Turkish culture up to now, and are also performed by
modern artists. Songs attributed to these poets have been embraced by left-wingers in the 20th
century. The aşık bards are also influenced by Alevi tradition.
Many of the major traditional musicians in Turkey are Alevi, including Arif Sağ, Musa Eroğlu,
Erdal Erzincan, Neşet Ertaş, Muharrem Ertaş, Aşık Mahzuni Şerif, Aşık Feyzullah Çınar, Aşık
Veysel Şatıroğlu, Ali Ekber Çiçek, Sabahat Akkiraz, Belkıs Akkale, and Ulaş Özdemir. Other
non-Alevis, such as Ruhi Su and Zülfü Livaneli, have recorded many Alevi songs. Mercan Dede,
an artist whose music combines electronic and traditional Sufi elements, has made some songs
involving Alevi themes in cooperation with singer Sabahat Akkiraz. [1]
Below are a series of videos from Turkish television showing a cem service:
Part One
Part Two
Part Three
Part Four
Part Five
Part Six
Part Seven
See also:
Sema video
Amateur video, Part One
Amateur video, Part Two
Amateur video, Part Three
A cem in the Zaza tradition
References
1. ^ Martin van Bruinessen, "Aslini Inkar Eden Haramzadedir! The Debate on the Kurdish
Ethnic Identity of the Kurdish Alevis." in K. Kehl-Bodrogi, B. Kellner-Heinkele, & A.
Otter-Beaujean (eds), Syncretistic Religious Communities in the Near East (Leiden: Brill,
1997). Note p. 7.)
2. ^ See Ali Yaman's article "Kizilbash Alevi Dedes."
3. ^ So argues Martin van Bruinessen in his 2003 paper "Clashes between or within
civilizations? Meeting of cultures in Anatolia and Western Europe" See par. 3.
4. ^ From the introduction of Syncretistic Religious Communities in the Near East edited by
her, B. Kellner-Heinkele, & A. Otter-Beaujean. Leiden: Brill, 1997.
5. ^ Structure and Function in Turkish Society. Isis Press, 2006, p. 81).
6. ^ From his Turkish Alevis Today.
7. ^ "The Alevi of Anatolia," 1995.
8. ^ Bilici, F: "The Function of Alevi-Bektashi Theology in Modern Turkey", seminar.
Swedish Research Institute, 1996
9. ^ These and many other quotations may be found in John Shindeldecker's Turkish Alevis
Today.
10. ^ Also see, Öztürk, ibid, pp. 78-81. In the old days, marrying a Sünni [Yezide kuşak
çözmek] was also accepted as an offense that led to the state of düşkün. See Alevi Buyruks