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).

• List of Illustrations AcknowledgementsNote on TransliterationList of AbbreviationsIntroductionChapter 1. The Iraq Connection: Abu’l-Wafaʾ Taj al-ʿArifin and the Wafaʾi OrderChapter 2. The Forgotten Forefathers: Wafaʾi Dervishes in Medieval AnatoliaChapter 3. Hacı Bektaş and His Contested Legacy: The Abdals of Rum, the Bektashi Order, and the (Proto-)Kizilbash CommunitiesChapter 4. A Transregional Kizilbash Network: The Iraqi Shrine Cities and Their Kizilbash VisitorsChapter 5. Mysticism and Imperial Politics: The Safavids and the Making of the Kizilbash MilieuChapter 6. From Persecution to Confessionalization: The Consolidation of Kizilbash/Alevi Identity in Ottoman AnatoliaConclusionGlossaryBibliographyIndex

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.