Deniz Ali Gür is a doctoral candidate in religious studies. He is a historian of religion specializing in late and post-Ottoman domains, with a particular focus on Sufism and Bektashi tradition. His research explores the political contexts of religious communities and intellectual entanglements therein. He has conducted research on Islamic movements in modern Turkey and Bektashi intellectuals in the late Ottoman period. His current research is on Cairene Bektashis in the modern era as a nationalized Bektashi tradition, which he studies through demographic, social, political and religious aspects. He is affiliated with the Institute of Religious Studies at Leipzig University.