Caliphate Redefined : The Mystical Turn in Ottoman Political Thought / Hüseyin Yılmaz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yılmaz, Hüseyin, author.

Series:

Princeton scholarship online.

Princeton scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion and politics--Turkey--History.

Religion and politics.

Sufism--Turkey--History.

Sufism.

Islam and politics--Turkey--History.

Islam and politics.

Turkey--Politics and government--To 1500.

Turkey.

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

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (388 pages)

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The medieval theory of the caliphate, epitomized by the Abbasids (750-1258), was the construct of jurists who conceived it as a contractual leadership of the Muslim community in succession to the Prophet Muhammed's political authority. In this book, Hüseyin Yilmaz traces how a new conception of the caliphate emerged under the Ottomans, who redefined the caliph as at once a ruler, a spiritual guide, and a lawmaker corresponding to the prophet's three natures.Challenging conventional narratives that portray the Ottoman caliphate as a fading relic of medieval Islamic law, Yilmaz offers a novel interpretation of authority, sovereignty, and imperial ideology by examining how Ottoman political discourse led to the mystification of Muslim political ideals and redefined the caliphate. He illuminates how Ottoman Sufis reimagined the caliphate as a manifestation and extension of cosmic divine governance. The Ottoman Empire arose in Western Anatolia and the Balkans, where charismatic Sufi leaders were perceived to be God's deputies on earth. Yilmaz traces how Ottoman rulers, in alliance with an increasingly powerful Sufi establishment, continuously refashioned and legitimated their rule through mystical imageries of authority, and how the caliphate itself reemerged as a moral paradigm that shaped early modern Muslim empires.A masterful work of scholarship, Caliphate Redefined is the first comprehensive study of premodern Ottoman political thought to offer an extensive analysis of a wealth of previously unstudied texts in Arabic, Persian, and Ottoman Turkish.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Note on Translation, Transliteration, and Pronunciation

Introduction

Abbreviations

The Discourse on Rulership

The Caliphate Mystified

The Sultan and the Sultanate

The Caliph and the Caliphate

The Myth of the Ottoman Caliphate

Conclusion

Notes

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Previously issued in print: 2018.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

9781400888047

1400888042

OCLC:

1014328695