Virtue, piety and the law : : a study of Birgivi Mehmed Efendi's Al-Tariqa Al-Muhammadiyya / / by Katharina A. Ivanyi.

• Superior document: The Ottoman Empire and its heritage ; Volume 72
• VerfasserIn: Ivanyi, Katharina A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : BRILL,, [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Ottoman Empire and its heritage ; Volume 72.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

In Virtue, Piety and the Law Katharina Ivanyi examines Birgivī Meḥmed Efendī's (d. 981/1573) al-Ṭarīqa al-muḥammadiyya , a major work of pietist exhortation and advice, composed by the sixteenth-century Ottoman jurist, Ḥadīth scholar and grammarian, who would articulate a style of religiosity that had considerable reformist appeal into modern times. Linking the cultivation of individual virtue to questions of wider political, social and economic concern, Birgivī played a significant role in the negotiation and articulation of early modern Ottoman Ḥanafī piety. Birgivī's deep mistrust of the passions of the human soul led him to prescribe a regime of self-surveillance and control that was only matched in rigor by his likewise exacting interpretation of the law in matters of everyday life, as much as in state practices, such as the cash waqf, Ottoman land tenure and taxation.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations and Frequently Cited Sources -- Note on Transliteration and Transcription -- Introduction -- 1 Please Provide Chapter Title -- 1 Context I: Birgivī's Life -- 2 Context II: Birgivī's oeuvre -- 3 Context III: the Bigger Picture-Early Modern Sunnitization, the Negotiation of Orthodoxy and the Pietist Turn -- 2 The Intellectual Framework -- 1 The Ḥanafī Tradition-Law and Ethics -- 2 Post-Classical fatāwā Handbooks -- 3 Abū al-Layth al-Samarqandī -- 4 Other Ḥanafī Literature -- 5 The Corruption of Times -- 6 Legal Sources beyond the Ḥanafī School -- 7 Birgivī and the Ḥanbalīs -- 8 Birgivī and Ḥadīth -- 9 Sufism -- 10 Science of the Hearts -- 11 Ghazālī -- 12 Emulation of the Prophet -- 13 Birgivī in Contemporary Comparison: Shāhzāde Ḳorḳud -- 14 Birgivī and the Ottoman naṣīḥat-nāme: Muṣṭafā ʿĀlī -- 15 Birgivī and Ottoman Jurisprudence: Ebūʾs-Suʿūd -- 3 The Fundamentals of Piety: an Overview of the Structure and Contents of al-Ṭarīqa al-muḥammadiyya -- 1 Introduction -- 2 A Note on the Textual History of al-Ṭarīqa al-muḥammadiyya -- 3 General Structure of TM and Overview of Contents -- 4 Detailed Summary of Contents-Introduction -- 5 Innovation -- 6 Bidʿa and Sufism -- 7 Moderation -- 8 Part Two-Chapter One-Doctrine -- 9 The Legal Status of the various sciences -- 10 Part Two, Chapter Three: Piety -- 11 The Practical Manifestations of Piety-the Core of TM -- 12 The Vices of the Heart -- 13 Birgivī's Conception of the Soul -- 14 The Vices of the Tongue -- 15 The Vices of the Ear -- 16 The Vices of the Eye -- 17 The Vices of the Hand -- 18 The Vices of the Belly -- 19 The Vices of the Private Parts -- 20 The Vices of the Leg -- 21 Vices Unspecified by Any One Part of the Body -- 22 Part Three of TM-Ritual Purity -- 23 Part Three-Chapter Two-Finance, Land Tenure and Taxation -- 24 What Holds It All Together -- 4 The Slippery Slope of Piety: Birgivī on Sincerity, Sanctimony and How to Determine Right Intention -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Vocabulary and Semantics, Definitions and Classifications -- 3 Riyāʾ as Lesser Shirk -- 4 Other Types of Dissimulation -- 5 Sincerity (ikhlāṣ and iḥsān) -- 6 Truthfulness (ṣidq) -- 7 Various Taxonomies of riyāʾ -- 8 Legal Categorization -- 9 The Why(s) and How(s) of riyāʾ -- 10 The "People of Religion" -- 11 When Things Are Not That Clear-Cut -- 12 Embarrassment -- 13 How to Cure the Evil of riyāʾ -- 14 Display in Order to Guide, but How Can You Be Sure -- 15 Conclusion -- 5 The Economics of Piety: Birgivī on Wastefulness, the Cash waqf and Ottoman Land Tenure and Taxation -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Basic Concepts-the Good and Bad Qualities of Wealth -- 3 Stinginess, Generosity and Waste -- 4 The Causes, Manifestations and Antidotes of Wastefulness -- 5 Charity, Poverty and Begging -- 6 Payment for Religious Services -- 7 The Cash waqf -- 8 Land Tenure and Taxation -- 9 Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Reference Works, Library Catalogues, Bibliographies -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Index.