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[email protected] on 03 May 2020 Universal Faith or Islamic Denomination: On the Struggle to Define Alevism Ioannis N. Grigoriadis and Pinar Akdeniz Introduction The term “Alevi” is related to heterodox Islamic groups that have lived in Anatolia and its bordering regions since the introduction of Islam in the late eleventh century. It refers to a number of het- erodox groups such as Kızılbas¸, Tahtacı, C¸epni and Ocakzade, IOANNIS N. GRIGORIADIS (BA, University of Athens; MIA, Columbia University; PhD, University of London) is Associate Professor and Jean Monnet Chair in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey. He is the author of Democratic Transition and the Rise of Popu- list Majoritarianism: Constitutional Reform in Greece and Turkey (New York: Pal- grave Macmillan, 2018). His other most recent publications are “For the People, Against the Elites: Left versus Right-Wing Populism in Greece and Turkey,” The Journal of Middle East and North Africa 11, no. 1 (January–March 2020); (with Arzu Opc¸in-Kıdal) “Imagining Turan: Homeland and Its Political Implications in the Literary Work of Hu¨seyinzade Ali [Turan] and Mehmet Ziya [Go¨kalp],” Middle Eastern Studies 2020; (with Esra Dilek) “Securitizing Migration in the European Union: Greece and the Evros Fence,” Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies 21, no. 2 (June 2019). He has published in Middle East Journal, Mediterranean Politics, Democratization, Middle Eastern Politics, Journal of Middle East and North Africa, Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, Constitutional Political Economy, Turkish Studies, Middle East Pol- icy,andInternational Journal.