The Kizilbash-Alevis in Ottoman Anatolia : : Sufism, Politics and Community / / Ayfer Karakaya-Stump.

Winner of the 2020 SERMEISS Book Award for outstanding scholarship in Middle Eastern/Islamic StudiesExplores the transformation of the Kizilbash from a radical religio-political movement to a religious order of closed communitiesThe first comprehensive social history of the Kizilbash/Alevi communiti...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2019
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Edinburgh Studies on the Ottoman Empire : ESOE
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Physical Description:1 online resource (400 p.) :; 23 B/W illustrations 2 B/W line art
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes on Transliteration and Terminology
  • Abbreviations
  • Map 1. West Asia in the late medieval and early modern periods
  • Map 2. The Ottoman–Safavid conflict c.1500
  • Introduction
  • 1 The Iraq Connection: Abu’l-Wafaʾ Taj al-ʿArifin and the Wafaʾi Tradition
  • 2 The Forgotten Forefathers: Wafaʾi Dervishes in Medieval Anatolia
  • 3 Hacı Bektaş and his Contested Legacy: The Abdals of Rum, the Bektashi Order and the (Proto-) Kizilbash Communities
  • 4 A Transregional Kizilbash Network: The Iraqi Shrine Cities and their Kizilbash Visitors
  • 5 Mysticism and Imperial Politics: The Safavids and the Making of the Kizilbash Milieu
  • 6 From Persecution to Confessionalisation: Consolidation of the Kizilbash/Alevi Identity in Ottoman Anatolia
  • Conclusion
  • Glossary
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index