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Musâhiblik Kurumu Üzerinden Alevi Ocaklar ve Gruplar Hakkında Bazı Değerlendirmeler
Authors: Cenksu ÜÇER
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This article deals with the Musāhiblik (companionship) institution. The Musāhiblik institution is
available in some lodges (ocak) and groups named Alawi. This institution expresses the brotherhood
of the two married families in the worldly life and the Hereafter. This study is aimed at dealing
with the Musāhiblik institution that provides social solidarity in the past and present and to evaluate
approaches of the Alawi lodges and groups on the issue. The Musāhiblik institution that maintains
influence in some Alawi lodges and groups is nourished from the same sources with many formations
in different regions of Anatolia, for example, Yaren, Barana, Delikanlı Organisation, Gezek, Muhabbet, Oda Organisation, Sohbet, Sıra, Perde, Arfana etc. It is understood that the Musāhiblik is a form
established according to social and religious lives of the Alawi lodges and groups, which are also
shaped by tribe system, lineage, clan and Sufi order life. However, the radical changes experienced
due to modernity, secularization, industrialization, urbanization, specialization, migration and so on
have radically shaken the social corporate structures, such as Dedelik, Düşkünlük, Musāhiblik and
so forth. The transition period experienced in Turkey and the institutionalization efforts of the Alawi groups in the cities will determine and clarify how the traditional institutions will continue and
whether or not they will continue in the first place.