Musâhiblik Kurumu Üzerinden Alevi Ocaklar ve Gruplar Hakkında Bazı Değerlendirmeler

This article deals with the Musāhiblik (companionship) institution. The Musāhiblik institution isavailable in some lodges (ocak) and groups named Alawi. This institution expresses the brotherhoodof the two married families in the worldly life and the Hereafter. This study is aimed at dealingwith the Musāhiblik institution that provides social solidarity in the past and present and to evaluateapproaches of the Alawi lodges and groups on the issue. The Musāhiblik institution that maintainsinfluence in some Alawi lodges and groups is nourished from the same sources with many formationsin 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 formestablished according to social and religious lives of the Alawi lodges and groups, which are alsoshaped by tribe system, lineage, clan and Sufi order life. However, the radical changes experienceddue to modernity, secularization, industrialization, urbanization, specialization, migration and so onhave radically shaken the social corporate structures, such as Dedelik, Düşkünlük, Musāhiblik andso forth. The transition period experienced in Turkey and the institutionalization efforts of the Alawigroups in the cities will determine and clarify how the traditional institutions will continue andwhether or not they will continue in the first place.
Keywords: Musāhiblik, Alawi lodges, Alawi groups