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Ayfer Karakaya-Stump
College of William and Mary
Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
Email: [email protected]
110 Crownpoint Rd
Williamsburg VA 23185
United States
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Gender/Women's Studies
Islamic Studies
Ottoman Studies
Turkish Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Ottoman Empire
Former Yugoslavia
Specialties
Gender/Women's Stds
Social & Cult Hist Of Anatolia In Ottoman Era
Sufi Orders, Alevi-Bektashi Communities
Languages
Arabic (intermediate)
French (elementary)
German (advanced)
Persian (intermediate)
Turkish (native)
Education
PhD | 2008 | History/Middle Eastern Studies | Harvard University
MA | 1997 | Hist | Ohio State U
Abstracts
The Vefa’i Order, the Bekta?i Order and the Making of “Heterodox” Islam in Anatolia Rethinking the Kizilbash Movement and the Rise of the Safavids in Light of New Evidence The Anti-Kizilbash Campaigns of the 16th Century and the Crystallization of the Ottoman Sunni Identity Sheikh ul-Islam Ebussu‘ud (d. 1574) and the (Re)Invention of Ottoman Sunnism