Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, cilt.36, sa.2, ss.115-173, 2025 (AHCI, Scopus)
Through a comparative analysis of mühimme defters (registers of important imperial affairs), mufaṣṣal taḥrīr defters (comprehensive tax registers) and evḳāf taḥrīr defters (registers of pious endowments), which are three of the first-hand sources for late medieval and early modern Ottoman Anatolia, this microhistorical article examines the agentic, negotitation-tinged, and non-linear patterns of multilayered relationality between the Ottoman Empire and its Kızılbaş subjects during the years 1455–1576. Within this framework, the research focuses on the mezraʿa/ḳarye of Mūdāy (present-day Karşıkent village in Reşadiye, Tokat) in Niksar, which was a ḳażā in the eyālet of Rūm, and historicizes, from a vertical and diachronic perspective, the three-stage process of ‘Kızılbaş confessionalization’ experienced by an ʿAlī-oriented rural Sufi community gathered around the zāviye built in this waqf-based village. By situating this process within the broader socio-economic and politico-religious conditions of the period, the study demonstrates how this trajectory ultimately culminated in the formation of an Alevi ocak (Emīr Şeyh Yaʿḳūb). In doing so, the study, through the provision of local, empirical evidence, contributes to the recently burgeoning historiographical literature that analytically challenges the dominant discursive paradigm that has framed Kızılbaş–Ottoman relations on the basis of a monolithic narrative of marginalization and persecution.