Alevi

What are Alevis like in real life? Are they even a thing in today's Turkey? And why they get so little attention, e.g. some times we see irrelevant people becoming muslims, buddhists etc but I am not aware of anyone becoming an Alevi (not that I want to, just interested).

People change religions to gain influence. It's not like the Bektashi HQ is in a relevant place

>People change religions to gain influence
I cannot agree with you here, at least many people change faith because they genuinely believe in their new religions.
For example, here I know a hand full of buddhists and it doesn't seem like they anyhow profited from it.

> Bektashi HQ
are Alevi same as Bektashi? I never managed to complitly figure this out.

Alevis in general are more liberal than other muslims and they still exist.
As far as I know there are like a few million of them in turkey.

Alevis are actual turkic people whose religion is a syncretism of altaic and abrahamic religions.
They are good people unlike the disgraceful “turks” who live in “turkey” that adopted islam balls deep and form a people of brainwashed mutts.

The only thing I know is that other muslims hate them like the plague.

It is strange though so little is known about them and there's no alevi shilling etc anywhere.

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Alevis are mostly loyal to AtaTÜRK and his ideas(except for edgy pkk Zazas), since during Ottoman times they were neglected and even hunted by s*nnis. Because of that a lot of Alevis are progressives.
Alevis are common in Turkey (definitely 10 million plus), but they are not attention whores like gay pride or autistic like s*nnis. You won't really notice their pressence because they don't have something like a mosque (they pray in cemevi) which is recognizable and things are kept within the community.
Becoming Alevi is not really common most people are born into it.
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What's the difference between Alewi and Alevi

That's a simplification lot of Alevis are Zazas(persians) so not Turkic. For the non-Zaza ones its definitely true since there were no benefits for the non-Turkic conquered people to become Alevi rather than S*nni

>Becoming Alevi is not really common most people are born into it.
Do they believe in something like soul transmigration like Alawites (e.g. Bashar Asad) do and so one has to born into alavism since it it is his/her reward for being good/pious in previous lifes?

>cemevi
How is this different from sunni masjid?
And are bektashi and alevi the same thing?

There is a big difference but for that to know I would have to know what an alawi actually is. I know that they would be considered among the shia side like Alevi but other than that I doubt that we are similar. Alevi is basicly Turkificated/Tengriistic Islam

Alevi Islam in Turkey is literally Turkic paganism in Islamic form

Never heard of soul transmigration
Masjid/mosque:
-has ezan call to prayer
-unique architecture
-different way of prayer
Cemevi
-no such thing as ezan/call of prayer
-no unique architecture (probably since Aleviism isn't actually accepted as an apart religion but falls under S*nni islam)

Alevi prayer is also totally different than Sunni ones for your knowledge. Prayer is accustomed with Saz instrument for Alevis.
Beliefs of Alevis stem also from Hacı Bektaş, but Bektashiim is also prevalent in the Balkan. Their faith is not 100% similar as Aleviism. Alevis are basicly a subgroup and the Balkan Bektashiis are another one.

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Thanks for the information!

Do Alevi use Quran as their religious book (like Muslims) or they have different sacred book/text? Do they have same hadiths as sunni or shia muslims or they are different or they aren't a thing at all?

>Alevi prayer is also totally different than Sunni ones for your knowledge
Is it also 5 (or 3) times a day? And is using music instrument the only difference or content of the prayer (e.g. what they recite and do during it) also different?

And if there's no transmigration or anything like that why no one heard about people becoming Alevi?
People convert to Islam (both Shia and sunni and sufi), buddhism and whatnot but Alevism.

Quran, teachings of hacı Bektaş, dede in cemevis(different village might have slightly different views though), Buyruk(important!)are sources of knowledge.
Most hadiths are rejected and seen as contrary whats said in the Quran.
Nowhere in the Quran it says you have to pray 5 times a day. Alevis don't have fixed amount of prayer per day. Your belief in god is central.
There are more differences something really different is that Alevis have semah, religious dances (shamanistic).
There is a lot of differences but also similarities with other religions/branches.
I haven't heard about conversion to Aleviism. Not sure if it's disallowed. It's more common among people who strictly call themselves Bektashiis I think. You are just born Alevi

I am not a cleric. Its hard to describe Aleviism. Even Dedes(our version of imams/priests) aren't 100% on the same line. Aleviism can differentiate from village to village

How do you know about Aleviism by the way? Most people apart from Turks/Azeris don't even know about it