Historicizing Sunni Islam in the Ottoman Empire, c. 1450-c. 1750 / edited by Tijana Krstić and Derin Terzioğlu.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Krstić, Tijana, editor.

Terzioğlu, Derin, 1969- editor.

Series:

Islamic history and thought ; Volume 177.

Islamic History and Civilization Series ; Volume 177

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islam--Turkey--History.

Islam.

Sunna.

Turkey--History--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918.

Turkey.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 530 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Brill 2021

Leiden, The Netherlands : Brill, [2021]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Articles in Historicizing Sunni Islam in the Ottoman Empire explore what it meant to be a Sunni Muslim and how the concepts of tradition and orthodoxy were conceived and debated in the Ottoman empire between c. 1450 and c. 1750.

Contents:

Acknowledgments

List of Figures

Abbreviations

Note on Transliteration

1 Historicizing the Study of Sunni Islam in the Ottoman Empire, c. 1450-c. 1750

Tijana Krstić

Part 1 Rethinking Sunni Orthodoxy in Dialogue with the Past and the Present

2 A New Hadith Culture? Arab Scholars and Ottoman Sunnitization in the Sixteenth Century

Helen Pfeifer

3 A Contrarian Voice: Şehzāde Ḳorḳud's (d. 919/1513) Writings on Kalām and the Early Articulation of Ottoman Sunnism

Nabil al-Tikriti

4 Ibn Taymiyya, al-Siyāsa al-sharʻiyya , and the Early Modern Ottomans

Derin Terzioğlu

5 You Must Know Your Faith in Detail : Redefinition of the Role of Knowledge and Boundaries of Belief in Ottoman Catechisms ( ʻilm-i ḥāl s)

6 How to Read Heresy in the Ottoman World

Nir Shafir

7 Prayers, Commentaries, and the Edification of the Ottoman Supplicant

Guy Burak

Part 2 Building a Pious Community: Spatial Dimensions of Sunnitization

8 Lives and Afterlives of an Urban Institution and Its Spaces: The Early Ottoman ʻİmāret as Mosque

Çiğdem Kafescioğlu

9 Abdāl -affiliated Convents and "Sunnitizing" Halveti Dervishes in Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Rumeli

Grigor Boykov

10 Attendance at the Five Daily Congregational Prayers, Imams and Their Communities in the Jurisprudential Debates during the Ottoman Age of Sunnitization

H. Evren Sünnetçioğlu

11 Piety and Presence in the Postclassical Sultanic Mosque

Ünver Rüstem

Part 3 Sunnis, Shi'is and Kızılbaş: The Context- and Genre-Specific Nature of Confessional Politics

12 Neither Victim Nor Accomplice: The Kızılbaş as Borderland Actors in the Early Modern Ottoman Realm

Ayşe Baltacıoğlu-Brammer

13 Reading Ottoman Sunnism through Islamic History: Approaches toward Yazīd b. Muʻāwiya in Ottoman Historical Writing

Vefa Erginbaş

14 Islamic Discourse in Ottoman-Safavid Peacetime Diplomacy after 1049/1639

Selim Güngörürler

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

90-04-44029-1

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Unrestricted online access