Ottoman Sunnism: New Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9781474443326 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 272 str.

Vefa Erginba?

Opis

Addressing the contested nature of Ottoman Sunnism from the 14th to the early 20th century, this book draws on diverse perspectives across the empire. Closely reading intellectual, social and mystical traditions within the empire, it clarifies the possibilities that existed within Ottoman Sunnism, presenting it as a complex, nuanced and evolving concept. The authors in this volume rescue Ottoman Sunnism from an increasingly bipolar definition that seeks to present the Ottomans as enshrining a clearly defined orthodoxy, suppressing its contrasting heterodoxy. Challenging established notions that have marked the existing literature, the chapters contribute significantly not only to the ongoing debate on the Ottoman age of confessionalisation but also to the study of religion in the Ottoman context.

Spis treści

Contributors; Acknowledgments; A Note on Transliteration; Chapter 1: Introduction, Vefa Erginba?; Chapter 2: The Rise of the “Religion and State” Order: Re-Confessionalization of State and Society in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire, R?za Y?ld?r?m; Chapter 3: One Word, Many Implications: The Term “K?z?lba?” in the Early Modern Ottoman Context, Ay?e Baltac?o?lu-Brammer; Chapter 4: Reappraising Ottoman religiosity in the last decades of the sixteenth-century: Mustafa Darir’s Siret and its Alid content, Vefa Erginba?; Chapter 5: Confessionalization or a quest for order? A comparative look at religion and state in the seventeenth-century Ottoman, Russian, and Habsburg Empires, Yasir Y?lmaz; Chapter 6: From the Hamzav?yye to the Melamiyye: Transformation of an Order in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul, F. Betül Yavuz; Chapter 7: Fabricating the Great Mass: Heresy and Legitimate Plurality in Harputlu ?shak Efendi’s Polemics against the Bekt??? Order, Benjamin Weineck; Chapter 8: The Ottoman Policy of “Correction of Belief(s)”, Necati Alkan; Chapter 9: Some Reflections on the Fluidity of Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy in an Ottoman Sunni Context, John J. Curry; Bibliography.