Markus Dressler, Writing Religion: The Making of Turkish Alevi Islam. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013..
Markus Dressler
Markus Dressler is an associate professor in the Department for Social Sciences and Humanities at Istanbul Technical University. He has published widely on modern Alevism and secularism. His research focuses on the sociology and politics of Islam in Turkey, nationalist Turkish historiography, and Sufism in the West, with special attention to the work of concepts in the study of religion and Islam. He is the author of Writing Religion: The Making of Turkish Alevi Islam (Oxford, 2013), and co-editor, with Arvind Mandair, of Secularism and Religion-Making (Oxford, 2011).