Abstract
Many new articles are written about Shiism every day both in Turkey and in international academia. However, since a considerable number of these articles are the focus of local studies, they are followed with limited certainty and the basic paradigms of the subject are usually not discussed. The folkloric and lite-rary repetition of previous literature as tradition and the insistence on the copy-paste method with the abandonment of a new perspective is reflected in Shiism studies as one of the main problems of social sciences. This study will begin by discussing the extent to which the relationship between Shiism and Ahmet Yesevî, which is strongly asserted in the current literature, is fundamen-tally true. Furthermore, the historical consideration of the concept of Khorasan in oral culture will be continued, the identity of Vefâi, which is included in some sources and considered one of the most important names in relation to Shiism, and its influence on Anatolian Shiism will be presented with a different interp-retation based on newly found information. It is highlighted what should be the crossroads of the academy in terms of new approaches and depth of connecti-ons with history, sociology and other disciplines.