Historicizing Sunni Islam in the Ottoman Empire, C. 1450-C. 1750

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-44028-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 177, 530 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1032 g

Reihe: Islamic History and Civilization

Articles collected in Historicizing Sunni Islam in the Ottoman Empire, c. 1450-c. 1750 engage with the idea that “Sunnism” itself has a history and trace how particular Islamic genres—ranging from prayer manuals, heresiographies, creeds, hadith and fatwa collections, legal and theological treatises, and historiography to mosques and Sufi convents—developed and were reinterpreted in the Ottoman Empire between c. 1450 and c. 1750. The volume epitomizes the growing scholarly interest in historicizing Islamic discourses and practices of the post-classical era, which has heretofore been styled as a period of decline, reflecting critically on the concepts of ‘tradition’, ‘orthodoxy’ and ‘orthopraxy’ as they were conceived and debated in the context of building and maintaining the longest-lasting Muslim-ruled empire.

Contributors: Helen Pfeifer; Nabil al-Tikriti; Derin Terzioglu; Tijana Krstic; Nir Shafir; Guy Burak; Çigdem Kafesçioglu; Grigor Boykov; H. Evren Sünnetçioglu; Ünver Rüstem; Ayse Baltacioglu-Brammer; Vefa Erginbas; Selim Gu¨ngöru¨rler.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Krstic, Tijana

Terzio&

Terzioglu, Derin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Spiritualität & Mystik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

List of Figures

Abbreviations

Note on Transliteration

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

Tijana Krstic

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: Sehzade ?or?ud’s (d. 919/1513) Writings on Kalam and the Early Articulation of Ottoman Sunnism

Nabil al-Tikriti

4 Ibn Taymiyya, al-Siyasa al-shar?iyya, and the Early Modern Ottomans

Derin Terzioglu

5 You Must Know Your Faith in Detail: Redefinition of the Role of Knowledge and Boundaries of Belief in Ottoman Catechisms (?ilm-i ?als)

Tijana Krstic

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 ?Imaret as Mosque

Çigdem Kafescioglu

9 Abdal-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 Sünnetçioglu

11 Piety and Presence in the Postclassical Sultanic Mosque

Ünver Rüstem

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

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

Ayse Baltacioglu-Brammer

13 Reading Ottoman Sunnism through Islamic History: Approaches toward Yazid b. Mu?awiya in Ottoman Historical Writing

Vefa Erginbas

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

Selim Güngörürler

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Tijana Krstic, Ph.D. (2004), University of Michigan, is Associate Professor at Central European University in Vienna, Austria. She is the author of Contested Conversions to Islam (Stanford University Press, 2011) and various articles on early modern Ottoman cultural and religious history.

Derin Terzioglu, Ph.D. (1999), Harvard University, is Associate Professor of History at Bogaziçi University in Istanbul, Turkey. She has published articles on early modern Ottoman religious, cultural and intellectual history.