The Kizilbash-Alevis in Ottoman Anatolia

Sufism, Politics and Community

Ayfer Karakaya-Stump (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

272 Seiten

2020
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-3268-9 (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).

Erscheinungsdatum	08.01.2019
Reihe/Serie	Edinburgh Studies on the Ottoman Empire
Zusatzinfo	12 B/W illustrations
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
ISBN-10	1-4744-3268-9 / 1474432689
ISBN-13	978-1-4744-3268-9 / 9781474432689
Zustand	Neuware