The Kizilbash-Alevis in Ottoman Anatolia

Winner of the 2020 SERMEISS Book Award for outstanding scholarship in Middle Eastern/Islamic Studies Explores the transformation of the Kizilbash from a radical religio-political movement to a religious order of closed communities The first comprehensive social history of the Kizilbash/Alevi communitiesCombines conventional sources with newly discovered ones generated within the Kizilbash-Alevi milieuArgues for a readjustment in focus from pre-Islamic Central Asia to the cosmopolitan Sufi milieu