Zeynep Oktay is assistant professor at the Department of Turkish Language and Literature at Boğaziçi University in Turkey, where she teaches courses on Sufism, Alevism, folklore, and the emergence of Turkish literature. Oktay studied Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College (USA) and completed her PhD in Islamic Civilization at École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris. She is the author of Mesnevî-i Baba Kaygusuz (Harvard University Department of Near Eastern Languages and Literatures, 2013), as well as a poetry book named Birlerken (Epona 2024). Oktay has also translated Henry Corbin’s L’Imagination créatrice dans le soufisme d’Ibn Arabi (Birle Bir Olmak: İbn Arabi Tasavvufunda Yaratıcı Muhayyile, Pinhan Yayınevi, 2013). Her forthcoming monograph, titled Kaygusuz Abdal and Dervish Poetry (Brill, 2025) focuses on the literature produced by antinomian Sufi groups (abdals) in Anatolia and the Balkans. Oktay has a YouTube and Spotify channel named “Devridaim” that includes her talks on Sufism and Alevism.