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

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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. ...

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The Kizilbash-Alevis in Ottoman Anatolia: Sufism, Politics and Community 2021, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh

ISBN-13: 9781474432696

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The Kizilbash-Alevis in Ottoman Anatolia: Sufism, Politics and Community 2020, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh

ISBN-13: 9781474432689

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