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Sufism in Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Europe: Entanglements in Past and Present offers the first in-depth, regionally nuanced study of Sufi networks, legacies, and transformations across Southeastern Europe from the Ottoman period through the contemporary post-socialist era.
List of contents
1 Entangled Sufism in (Post)Ottoman Europe: An Introduction 2 The Amalgamation of two Religious Cultures: the Conceptual and Cultural History of Alevi-Bektashism 3'Ali in an Alcove: Entangled Portraits in Bektashi and Alevi Religious Space 4 Turkish Sufism as seen by Western Esotericists in the 20th Century 5 Post-Ottoman Idealisation and Transspatial Entanglements within German Sufism 6 Places of Remembrance or Remembrance of Places? Social Memory and the Transformation of the Sufi Lodges in Republican Turkey 7 Modifications of a Sacred Place: Gul Baba's Tomb from the 17th Century to Post-Communist Times 8 Entangled Ambiguities: Sari Saltuk, St. George and the Dragon in Eastern Europe 9 The Revival of the Mesnevihan in Sarajevo: Entanglements of Urban Sufism 10 Building Sufi Authority: The Pilgrimage of Sheh Ali Coban in Caja as a Multi-Layered and Entangled Practice 11 Communicating the Mystical?: An Exploratory Case Study on the Imagined Sufi Communities through the use of Social Media 12 From Entanglement to Disentanglement and to Re-Entanglement?: Competitive Interconnections among the Albanian and Turkish Bektashis in Macedonia 13 Subjective Sacralising: Contradictory Naqshbandi Perspectives on Neo-Ottoman Involvement in Bosnia and Herzegovina
About the author
Cem Kara is Professor for Alevi Theology at the University of Hamburg, Germany.
Evelyn Reuter is a Research Associate for the Study of Religion at the University of the Bunderswehr Munich, Germany.
Zsòfia Turòczy is a University Assistant for the History and Anthropology of Southeast Europe at the University of Graz, Austria.
