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[Unorthodox Islam in the Bulgarian lands. Past and Present] (Sofia: ik “Gutenberg”, 2011), pp. 599, isbn 978-954-617-110-8.With this book Nevena Gramatikova makes a major contribution to the study of unorthodox Islam and Muslim groups in the Balkans, particularly in the Bulgarian lands. The primary temporal focus is the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries yet the author also provides an extensive discussion of Sufi groups during the preceding period beginning with the rise of Islam and refers to subsequent developments from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries. The topic continues to be relevant as such groups continue to live in the region. The 1991 Bulgarian census recorded over 83,000 Shi‘a Muslims in the country, a collective term encompassing the members of the Alevi, Bektaşi and Kızılbaş communities.The emergence of Muslim communities in the Balkans during the Ottoman period and their culture has recently been the focus of a number of studies. Most of them have focused on conversion to Islam; they have sought to provide more insight into the process while at the same offering a revisionist perspective on existing stereotypical views about the subject.1Yet the significance of settlement of Turkoman groups from Anatolia in the Balkans, along with the
Turkish Historical Review – Brill
Published: May 10, 2017
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