Ayse Baltacioglu-Brammer is a professor of history and Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University. She specializes in early modern Ottoman and Safavid empires. She is the author of “One Word, Many Implications: The Term “Kizilbas” in the Early Modern Ottoman Context,” in Beyond Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy: New Perspectives on Ottoman Sunnism, published by Edinburg University Press in 2019.