Zsófia Turóczy Editor

Cem Kara is a professor of Alevi Theology at the University of Hamburg, Germany. In his award‑winning dissertation (Grenzen überschreitende Derwische, 2019), he examined the transcultural history of the Bektashi order in the long 19th century. His current research focuses on ambiguities and emotions in Alevi textual sources.

Evelyn Reuter is a research fellow in Religious Studies at the University of the Bundeswehr Munich, Germany. She explores religious diversity and governance in Southeast Europe, focusing on Sufis and interreligious contacts. Her monography, Die Mehrdeutigkeit geteilter religiöser Orte (2021), examines shared religious spaces in Macedonia.

Zsófia Turóczy is a university assistant (postdoc) at the University of Graz. She defended her doctoral thesis, “Freemason Networks in Southeast Europe (1886–1920)”, at Leipzig University in 2023. Her fields of interest include literature and cultural history of Southeast Europe, focusing on Albania, Kosovo, Turkey, and Hungary.