**CANCELLED** Book talk: "The Kizilbash-Alevis in Ottoman Anatolia: Sufism, Politics and Community"

Date: 

Wednesday, April 8, 2020, 4:30pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138

The CMES Sohbet-i Osmani Lecture Series presents

Ayfer Karakaya-StumpAyfer Karakaya-Stump
Associate Professor, Department of History, College of William & Mary

Ayfer Karakaya-Stump was born and raised in Istanbul, Turkey. She received her Ph.D. in History and Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard University. Before taking up her position at William and Mary, she was a post-doctoral fellow for two years at Cornell University’s Society for the Humanities. In the 2013-4 academic year she held a Mellon Fellowship at the American Research Institute in Turkey and a Senior Fellowship at the Koç University Center for Anatolian Civilizations. 

Her scholarly interests include medieval and early modern Middle East, social and cultural history of the Ottoman Empire, Ottoman-Safavid borderlands, Sufism, nonconformist religious movements, Alevi/Bektashi communities, and women and gender in Islamic(ate) societies. Her current book manuscript is a history of the Kizilbash/Alevi communities in Ottoman Anatolia based largely on newly discovered sources from private archives. Her book in Turkish, Vefailik, Bektaşilik, Kızılbaşlık: Alevi Kaynaklarını, Tarihini ve Tarihyazımını Yeniden Düşünmek [The Vefa‘iyye, the Bektashiyye, the Kızılbash: Rethinking Alevi Sources, History and Historiography] appeared with Bilgi University Press, 2015. In addition to her academic work, Karakaya-Stump has also published commentaries in periodicals and newspapers, and given interviews, on current Turkish politics.

The Kizilbash-Alevis in Ottoman Anatolia: Sufism, Politics and Community was published by Edinburgh University Press in December 2019.

Contact: Liz Flanagan