5 Mysticism and Imperial Politics: The Safavids and the Making of the Kizilbash Milieu

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures vi
4. Acknowledgements viii
5. Notes on Transliteration and Terminology xi
6. Abbreviations xiv
7. Map 1. West Asia in the late medieval and early modern periods xx
8. Map 2. The Ottoman–Safavid conflict c.1500 xxi
9. Introduction 1
10. 1 The Iraq Connection: Abu’l-Wafaʾ Taj al-ʿArifin and the Wafaʾi Tradition 44
11. 2 The Forgotten Forefathers: Wafaʾi Dervishes in Medieval Anatolia 89
12. 3 Hacı Bektaş and his Contested Legacy: The Abdals of Rum, the Bektashi Order and the (Proto-) Kizilbash Communities 145
13. 4 A Transregional Kizilbash Network: The Iraqi Shrine Cities and their Kizilbash Visitors 188
14. 5 Mysticism and Imperial Politics: The Safavids and the Making of the Kizilbash Milieu 220
15. 6 From Persecution to Confessionalisation: Consolidation of the Kizilbash/Alevi Identity in Ottoman Anatolia 256
16. Conclusion 320
17. Glossary 327
18. Selected Bibliography 330
19. Index 365