The Kizilbash-Alevis in Ottoman Anatolia

Sufism, Politics and Community

Ayfer Karakaya-Stump (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

400 Seiten

2021
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
9781474432696 (ISBN)

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The Kizilbash were at once key players in and the foremost victims of the Ottoman-Safavid conflict that defined the early modern Middle East. Today referred to as Alevis, they constitute the second largest faith community in modern Turkey, with smaller pockets of related groups in the Balkans. Yet several aspects of their history remain little understood or explored. This first comprehensive socio-political history of the Kizilbash/Alevi communities uses a recently surfaced corpus of sources generated within their milieu. It offers fresh answers to many questions concerning their origins and evolution from a revolutionary movement to an inward-looking religious order.

Ayfer Karakaya-Stump is Associate Professor of History at The College of William and Mary. She has published articles in Turcica, International Journal of Turkish Studies and British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, and has published a monograph in Turkish with Bilgi University Press (2015).

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Note on Transliteration

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

Chapter 1. The Iraq Connection: Abu’l-Wafaʾ Taj al-ʿArifin and the Wafaʾi Order

Chapter 2. The Forgotten Forefathers: Wafaʾi Dervishes in Medieval Anatolia

Chapter 3. Hacı Bektaş and His Contested Legacy: The Abdals of Rum, the Bektashi Order, and the (Proto-)Kizilbash Communities

Chapter 4. A Transregional Kizilbash Network: The Iraqi Shrine Cities and Their Kizilbash Visitors

Chapter 5. Mysticism and Imperial Politics: The Safavids and the Making of the Kizilbash Milieu

Chapter 6. From Persecution to Confessionalization: The Consolidation of Kizilbash/Alevi Identity in Ottoman Anatolia

Conclusion

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	03.09.2019
Reihe/Serie	Edinburgh Studies on the Ottoman Empire
Zusatzinfo	23 black and white illustrations, 2 black and white line art
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
ISBN-13	9781474432696 / 9781474432696
Zustand	Neuware