Johannes Zimmermann is assistant professor at the chair of Islamic Studies (Ottoman Studies) at Heidelberg University.Janina Karolewski is research associate at the Collaborative Research Centre SFB 950 «Manuscript Cultures in Asia, Africa and Europe» at the University of Hamburg.Robert Langer is head of the junior research group «Contemporary Islamic Cultures» at the University of Bayreuth (Religious Studies) and associate professor for Islamic Studies at Heidelberg University.

• Knowledge transmission in Alevism – Ritual practice – Written tradition – Oral lore – Scripturalisation – Memory and commemoration – Manuscripts – New media – Mimetics and imitation – Poet-minstrels – Gender roles – Transnational space – Yezidism.