The Kizilbash-Alevis in Ottoman Anatolia : Sufism, Politics and Community

by Ayfer Karakaya-Stump

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Format Paperback / Softback

Book Series Edinburgh Studies on the Ottoman Empire

ISBN-10 1474432697

ISBN-13 9781474432696

Publisher Edinburgh University Press

Imprint Edinburgh University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Aug 31st, 2021

Print length 400 Pages

Weight 636 grams

Dimensions 15.40 x 23.40 x 2.70 cms

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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.

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.

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