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Rich in its source base, scrupulous in its analysis of difficult and unwieldy historical evidence, and full of revisionist findings that overturn conventional scholarly views on Kizilbash/Alevi origins, Karakaya-Stump's study is a major breakthrough in the socio-religious history of late medieval and early modern Turkish Islam.-- ""Ahmet T. Karamustafa, University of Maryland"" Stump's book is a testimony to the strength of the historical approach of Ottoman studies at Harvard [...] A careful reconstruction based on sound method and a concern for the primary sources it provides us with a serious, sustained examination of the history of the Alevis, their links to Anatolian Sufi lineages including the Bektachis, and the association with the Kizilbash in the early modern period.--Sajjad H Rizvi, University of Exeter ""The Muslim World Book Review, 42:3"" This is an important book that has the potential to help us rethink much of what we think we know about Sufism in the pre-modern and early modern eras.--Vernon James Schubel ""Journal of Sufi Studies"" The scholarly and social sensitivity Karakaya-Stump brought to bear during this work makes The Kizilbash-Alevis in Ottoman Anatolia an exemplary study that will inspire future scholarship, but which will not be easily equaled in scope and substance.--Angela Andersen, University of Victoria ""Review of Middle East Studies Vol. 54, Issue 2""

"Rich in its source base, scrupulous in its analysis of difficult and unwieldy historical evidence, and full of revisionist findings that overturn conventional scholarly views on Kizilbash/Alevi origins, Karakaya-Stump's study is a major breakthrough in the socio-religious history of late medieval and early modern Turkish Islam.-- ""Ahmet T. Karamustafa, University of Maryland"" Stump's book is a testimony to the strength of the historical approach of Ottoman studies at Harvard [...] A careful reconstruction based on sound method and a concern for the primary sources it provides us with a serious, sustained examination of the history of the Alevis, their links to Anatolian Sufi lineages including the Bektachis, and the association with the Kizilbash in the early modern period.--Sajjad H Rizvi, University of Exeter ""The Muslim World Book Review, 42:3"" This is an important book that has the potential to help us rethink much of what we think we know about Sufism in the pre-modern and early modern eras.--Vernon James Schubel ""Journal of Sufi Studies"" The scholarly and social sensitivity Karakaya-Stump brought to bear during this work makes The Kizilbash-Alevis in Ottoman Anatolia an exemplary study that will inspire future scholarship, but which will not be easily equaled in scope and substance.--Angela Andersen, University of Victoria ""Review of Middle East Studies Vol. 54, Issue 2"""

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Ayfer Karakaya-Stump is Associate Professor of History at The College of William and Mary. She has published articles in Turcica, International Journal of Turkish Studies and British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, and has published a monograph in Turkish with Bilgi University Press (2015).

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