1. For a comprehensive overview of the issues on Alevis and Alevi involvement in Turkish politics, see Paul J. White and Joost Jongerden, eds., Turkey’s Alevi Enigma: A Comprehensive Overview (Leiden: Brill, 2003)
2. David Shankland, The Alevis in Turkey: The Emergence of a Secular Islamic Tradition (London: Routledge, 2007).
3. Charles Y. Glock and Rodney Stark, Religion and Society in Tension (Chicago: Rand McNally, 1965).
4. Riaz Hassan, Faithliness: Muslim Conceptions of Islam and Society (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002).
5. Ali Çarkoğlu and B. Toprak, Türkiye’de Din Toplum ve Siyaset [Religion, Society and Politics in Turkey] (Istanbul: Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation Publications, 2000).