The Safavid-Qizilbash Ecumene and the formation of the qizilbash-alevi community in the Ottoman Empire, c. 1500–c. 1700

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buir.contributor.authorYıldırım, Rıza
dc.citation.epage483en_US
dc.citation.issueNumber3-4en_US
dc.citation.spage449en_US
dc.citation.volumeNumber52en_US
dc.contributor.authorYıldırım, Rızaen_US
dc.date.accessioned2020-02-13T11:23:57Z
dc.date.available2020-02-13T11:23:57Z
dc.date.issued2019-09
dc.departmentDepartment of Historyen_US
dc.description.abstractAlevis, the largest religious minority of Turkey, also living in Europe and the Balkans, are distinguished from both Sunnis and Shiʿites by their latitudinarian attitude toward Islamic Law. Conceptualizing this feature as “heterodoxy,” earlier Turkish scholarship sought the roots of Alevi religiosity in Turkish traditions which traced back to Central Asia, on the one hand, and in medieval Anatolian Sufi orders such as the Yasawi, Bektashi, Qalandari, and Wafaʾi, on the other. A new line of scholarship has critiqued the earlier conceptualization of Alevis as “heterodox” as well as the assumption of Central Asian connections. In the meantime, the new scholarship too has focused on medieval Anatolian Sufi orders, especially the Bektashi and Wafaʾi, as the fountainhead of Alevi tradition. Critically engaging with both scholarships, this paper argues that it was the Safavid-Qizilbash movement in Anatolia, Azerbaijan, and Iran rather than medieval Sufi orders, that gave birth to Alevi religiosity.en_US
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dc.identifier.doi10.1080/00210862.2019.1646120en_US
dc.identifier.eissn1475-4819
dc.identifier.issn0021-0862
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11693/53335
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.publisherRoutledgeen_US
dc.relation.isversionofhttps://doi.org/10.1080/00210862.2019.1646120en_US
dc.source.titleIranian Studiesen_US
dc.subjectAlevien_US
dc.subjectQizilbashen_US
dc.subjectSafavidsen_US
dc.subjectBektashien_US
dc.subjectTurkomanen_US
dc.subjectOttomansen_US
dc.subjectSufi ordersen_US
dc.titleThe Safavid-Qizilbash Ecumene and the formation of the qizilbash-alevi community in the Ottoman Empire, c. 1500–c. 1700en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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