The Kizilbash-Alevis in Ottoman Anatolia :: Sufism, politics and community /

"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....

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1. Verfasser: Karakaya-Stump, Ayfer (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2020]
Schriftenreihe:Edinburgh studies on the Ottoman Empire.
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Zusammenfassung:"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"--
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xviii, 378 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 330-364) and index
ISBN:9781474432702
1474432700
9781474432719
1474432719

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