Sufism and Sufis in Ottoman Society - Sources - Doctiren - Turuq - Architecture - Literature - Iconography - Modernism

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TRANSLITERATION SYSTEM

INTRODUCTION

PART ONE: BELIEFS

ABDULAZİZ SACHEDINA, The Wali of God and the Wasi of the Prophet: ‘Ali b. Abi Talib in Twelver Shi`ite belief

MOHAMMAD ALİ AMIR-MOEZZI, Considérations sur l'expression “Din ‘Ali": Aux origines de la foi shiite

FARHAD DAFTARY, ‘Ali in classical Ismaili theology

IRÈNE MÉLIKOFF, La divinisation d’Ali chez les Bektachis Alevis

MEIR M. BAL-ASHER and ARYEH KOFSKY, The Nusayri doctrine of ‘Ali's divinity and the Nusayri trinity according to an unpublished treatise from the 7th/13th century

E. RUHİ FIĞLALI, ‘Ali in the Sunni historical and theological tradition

ALEXANDER FODOR, Types of Shi`ite amulets from Iraq

PART TWO: POPULAR LITERATURE AND ICONOGRAPHY

İSMET ÇETİN, ‘Ali in Turkish folk literature

SERPİL BAĞCI, From texts to pictures: ‘Ali in manuscript painting

FREDERICK DE JONG, The iconography of Bektashiism: A survey of themes and symbolism in clerical costume, liturgical objects and pictorial art

M. UĞUR DERMAN, ‘Ali in Ottoman calligraphy

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