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 t...

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.