Book Review: Dede Institution in Anatolian Alevism

Abstract

This study is about the introduction and evaluation of Assoc. Prof. Dr. Hasan Coşkun's work titled ‘Dede Institution’ in Anatolian Alevism. While preparing our study, we used the author's name and other published works. Despite the increase in publications on Alevism-Bektashi, the scarcity of studies examining Dede Institution in Anatolian Alevism reveals the importance of the work we will promote. Although the subject of Alevism has been a popular subject in our country recently, the abundance of publications far from field studies makes this demand insufficient. Hasan Coşkun, the author of the work we examined, conveyed Dede Institution through the Alevism of the Tokat and Sivas regions in a fluent, understandable and objective way with the knowledge and experience he gained from field observations. The work we are examining is a work based on field research. Although field research is important in terms of carrying out the primary actors of the subject, the difficulties of the field are also an issue that cannot be ignored. The fact that subjects such as Dede Institution and the quarry structure are the subject of a study other than field research will mean that the relevant subjects will be deprived of their primary interlocutors, which is not a desirable situation in terms of the nature and quality of the study.