OTTOMAN PURIT & ITS DISCONTENTS OTM C

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-0-19-879076-1
Verlag: ACADEMIC

Buch, Englisch, 202 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 392 g

This book is about the emergence of a new activist Sufism in the Muslim world from the sixteenth century onwards, which emphasized personal responsibility for putting Godâs guidance into practice. It focuses specifically on developments at the centre of the Ottoman Empire, but also considers both how they might have been influenced by the wider connections and engagements of learned and holy men and how their influence might have been spread from the Ottoman Empire to South Asia in particular. The immediate focus is on the Qadizadeli movement which flourished in Istanbul from the 1620s to the 1680s and which inveighed against corrupt scholars and heterodox Sufis. The book aims by studying the relationship between Ahmad al-Rumi al-Aqhisariâs magisterial Majalis al-abrar and Qadizadeli beliefs to place both author and the movement in an Ottoman, Hanafi, and Sufi milieu. In so doing, it breaks new ground, both in bringing to light al-Aqhisariâs writings, and methodologically, in Ottoman studies at least, in employing line-by-line textual comparisons to ascertain the borrowings and influences linking al-Aqhisari to medieval Islamic thinkers such as Ahmad b. Taymiyya and Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya, as well as to several near-contemporaries. Most significantly, the book finally puts to rest the strict dichotomy between Qadizadeli reformism and Sufism, a dichotomy that with too few exceptions continues to be the mainstay of the existing literature.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sheikh

Sheikh, Mustapha

Fachgebiete

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Transliteration Guide

- Abbreviations

- Introduction

- 1: Ottoman Puritanism

- Introducing the Qadizadelis

- The Literature

- An Ottoman Crisis?

- 2: The Third Man

- From Cyprus to Aqhisar

- Majalis al-abrar: A Manifesto for Reform

- Al-Aqhisari's Sources

- 3: The Muhammadan Path

- The Naqshbandi Paradigm

- Good Sufi, Bad Sufi

- Saints: Dead and Alive

- 4: Innovation (Bid'a)

- A Complex Discussion

- Taymiyyan Influences in the Majalis

- Pernicious Innovations

- 5: Forbidding Evil

- A Hard-line Agenda

- Neo-Sufism Again

- Conclusion

- Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Dr Mustapha Sheikh is Lecturer in Islamic Studies and Co-Director of the Iqbal Centre for the Study of Contemporary Islam at the University of Leeds.