Dealing with dervish headcoverings (tac) in the Ottoman Empire and interpreting them in a broad sense this book is based on a late 18th century treatise of the Naqshbandi scholar Mustaqim-zade Suleyman Sadeddin (d. 1788) from Istanbul. The introduction interprets the meaning of headcoverings in both the Ottoman society as well as in a dervish's private world and it discusses the terminology used in the dervish literature. The second chapter is the critical transliteration of Mustaqim-zade's treatise. Mustaqim-zade does not only tell the history and meaning of headcoverings in Islam but...
Dealing with dervish headcoverings (tac) in the Ottoman Empire and interpreting them in a broad sense this book is based on a late 18th century...
