Dan Rabinowitz. The Power of Deserts: Climate Change, the Middle East, and the Promise of a Post-Oil Era (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020). Pp. 184. $14.00 paper. ISBN 9781503609983.

Abstract

rather than a religious identity, have been used to continue the oppression of Alevi people in the post-Ottoman landscape. Countering historical misconceptions with such careful research successfully undermines the weak foundations used to deny Alevis their rights and history. The scholarly and social sensitivity Karakaya-Stump brought to bear during this work makes The Kizilbash-Alevis in Ottoman Anatolia an exemplary study that will inspire future scholarship, but which will not be easily equaled in scope and substance.