Ottoman Sunnism : : New Perspectives / / Vefa Erginbaş.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Erginbaş, Vefa,
• MitwirkendeR: Alkan, Necati,; Baltacıoğlu-Brammer, Ayşe,; Curry, John J.,; Erginbaş, Vefa,; Weineck, Benjamin,; Yavuz, F. Betül,; Yıldırım, Rıza,; Yılmaz, Yasir,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Edinburgh Studies on the Ottoman Empire : ESOE
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)

Explores Ottoman Sunnism from the earliest period of the empire to its end Revisionist chapters question established paradigms on Ottoman Sunnism, offering complex and nuanced understandings of the subjectContributes to the ongoing debate regarding confessionalisation in the Ottoman EmpireExplains and – where necessary – revises various understandings of Ottoman religionReflects different perspectives across the Empire, particularly from the Balkans and central heartlands Relevant to historians who study religion in Europe and Asia in the early modern world, allowing for increased comparative insightsAddressing the contested nature of Ottoman Sunnism from the 14th to the early 20th century, this book draws on diverse perspectives across the empire. Closely reading intellectual, social and mystical traditions within the empire, it clarifies the possibilities that existed within Ottoman Sunnism, presenting it as a complex, nuanced and evolving concept. The authors in this volume rescue Ottoman Sunnism from an increasingly bipolar definition that seeks to present the Ottomans as enshrining a clearly defined orthodoxy, suppressing its contrasting heterodoxy. Challenging established notions that have marked the existing literature, the chapters contribute significantly not only to the ongoing debate on the Ottoman age of confessionalisation but also to the study of religion in the Ottoman context. ContributorsNecati Alkan, University of BambergAyşe Baltacıoğlu-Brammer, New York UniversityJohn J. Curry, University of Nevada Vefa Erginbaş, Providence College Benjamin Weineck, Bayreuth University F. Betul Yavuz, independent scholar Yasir Yılmaz, Palacký University Rıza Yıldırım, Emory University

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Transliteration -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Rise of the ‘Religion and State’ Order: Re-confessionalisation of State and Society in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire -- 3. One Word, Many Implications: The Term ‘Kızılbaş’ in the Early Modern Ottoman Context -- 4. Reappraising Ottoman Religiosity in the Last Decades of the Sixteenth Century: Mustafa Darir’s Siret and its Alid Content -- 5. Confessionalisation or a Quest for Order? A Comparative Look at Religion and State in the Seventeenth-century Ottoman, Russian and Habsburg Empires -- 6. From the Hamzaviyye to the Melāmiyye: Transformation of an Order in Seventeenth-century Istanbul -- 7. Fabricating the Great Mass: Heresy and Legitimate Plurality in Harputlu İshak Efendi’s Polemics against the Bektaşi Order -- 8. The Ottoman Policy of ‘Correction of Belief(s)’ -- 9. Some Reflections on the Fluidity of Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy in an Ottoman Sunni Context -- Bibliography -- Index