Alevi Settlements and the Ottoman State in Early Modern Anatolia: A Framework for Inquiry
This study offers a regionally grounded perspective on the social and economic history of a specific sample of Alevi villages in Amasya and Malatya. Drawing on tax registers, court records, and petition registers, and combining these materials with ethnographic data from the nineteenth to the twenty...
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| Julkaisussa: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ejts, |
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| Aineistotyyppi: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Kieli: | Anglais |
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European journal of Turkish studies
2026
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| Linkit: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Yhteenveto: | This study offers a regionally grounded perspective on the social and economic history of a specific sample of Alevi villages in Amasya and Malatya. Drawing on tax registers, court records, and petition registers, and combining these materials with ethnographic data from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries, it examines instances in which Kızılbaş-Alevis interacted with the Ottoman state and its local representatives. In the cases discussed, these historical actors sought redress through local kadı courts and the imperial petitioning system, engaged in property transactions, and contested inheritance claims. Through a close analysis of these sources, the article sheds light on largely overlooked everyday practices. While the findings are highly contingent upon specific temporal and spatial contexts, the study argues that this particular combination of sources can serve as a productive framework for further historical inquiry. |
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