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Dr. Ufuk Erol

Research associate


Since 2024, research associate at the Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG)
Ph.D. (2024) in History at Indiana University Bloomington, USA, with the dissertation “Religiosity, Power, and Community: The Making of Qizilbash-Alevi Sufism”
B.A. (2016) in History and Sociology (double major) at Bogazici (Bosphorus) University, Istanbul, Turkey.

  • Religion, Politics and Sufism in the Ottoman Empire and Iran
  • Ottoman socio-economic history
  • Iranian Intellectuals and Shiism in the Middle East and Europe
  • History of Alevism in the Middle East and Europe

• Ein Beispiel aus der alevitischen Literatur der Provinz: Ein Manuskript aus dem Çorum-Zweig von Şah İbrahim Veli Ocagi (An Example from Provincial Alevi Literature: A Manuscript from the Çorum Branch of Şah İbrahim Veli Ocagi), in: Journal of Alevism-Bektashism Studies/Forschungszeitschrift über Alevitentum und Bektaschitentum 27 (2023): 83-103.
• 19. Yüzyıldan Günümüze Alevilik: Kim Ne Söyledi, Ne Yazdı? (Alevitentum vom 19. Jahrhundert bis heute: Wer hat was gesagt und wer hat was geschrieben?), in: Şerhh Şiir ve Eleştiri Dergisi 6 (2017): 118-138.

Ongoing
Oct. 2024 - Sep. 2029
Religion

Transregional Modernisation: Iranian Intellectuals in Europe, 1870s to 1930s

My project examines the intellectual and ideological genealogy of the Iranian intellectuals in Europe from the 1870s to the 1930s.
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