Dr. Ufuk Erol
Research associate
Room: 05 316Phone: +49 6131 39 25937
Research project: Iranian Intellectuals in Europe
Personal Details:
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.
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.
Research Interests:
• 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
• Ottoman socio-economic history
• Iranian Intellectuals and Shiism in the Middle East and Europe
• History of Alevism in the Middle East and Europe
Selected Publications:
• An Example from Provincial Alevi Literature: A Manuscript from the Çorum Branch of Şah İbrahim Veli Ocağı, in: Journal of Alevism-Bektashism Studies/Forschungszeitschrift über Alevitentum und Bektaschitentum 27 (2023): 83-103.
• 19. Yüzyıldan Günümüze Alevilik: Kim Ne Söyledi, Ne Yazdı? (Alevism from the 19th Century until Today: Who Said What and Who Wrote What?), in: Şerhh Şiir ve Eleştiri Dergisi 6 (2017): 118-138.
• 19. Yüzyıldan Günümüze Alevilik: Kim Ne Söyledi, Ne Yazdı? (Alevism from the 19th Century until Today: Who Said What and Who Wrote What?), in: Şerhh Şiir ve Eleştiri Dergisi 6 (2017): 118-138.
Research projects:
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.