Citations:Abdal

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English citations of Abdal

  • 2020 January 10, Karakaya-Stump Ayfer Karakaya-Stump, Kizilbash-Alevis in Ottoman Anatolia: Sufism, Politics and Community, Edinburgh University Press, →ISBN:
    To begin with, the fact that the apparent progenitor of the family is referred to as an Abdal suggests that he may have been one of those itinerant dervishes collectively known as the Abdals of Rum. In the document, Hayran Abdal is []
  • 2018 March 6, Alwyn Hamilton, Hero at the Fall, Penguin, →ISBN, page 263:
    The Abdals were getting closer now, raising their hands, the heat building. And I couldn't wait anymore. I could feel that I was about to do something stupid. ... I swung for an Abdal, striking it hard in the heel again and again until []
  • 2015 March 6, Banu Akdenizli, Associate Professor of Communication at Northwestern University, Qatar, Digital Transformations in Turkey: Current Perspectives in Communication Studies, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 87:
    ... When you say Gypsy, what comes to the mind of an ordinary peasant in Central Anatolia is the Abdals, which is a Turanic clan with a unique culture. ... As an example, despite not seeing an Abdal as the member of her ethnic community []
  • 2003, R. B. Lal, Gujarat, Popular Prakashan, →ISBN, page 33:
    The sound of the dafli played by an Abdal is regarded as auspicious , as they belong to the legal basara order of beggars . Selling of attar ( perfume ) , surma ( eyetex ... The Abdals with their daflis singing awaken the villagers .
  • 1974, Reidar Grønhaug, Micro-macro Relations: Social Organization in Antalya, Southern Turkey:
    no place for the Abdals . But , in a villager's opinion : ' nen and ... But this is hardly a sign of discrimination against the Abdals as such . ... I was invited to an Abdal family for tea , and an old Abdal lady took up conversation .
  • 1992, K. S. Singh, People of India: Gujarat:
    The sound of the dafli played by an Abdal is regarded as auspicious , as they belong to the legal basara order of beggars . Selling of attar ( perfume ) , surma ( eyetex ... The Abdals with their daflis singing awaken the villagers .