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

"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 theolo...

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Other Authors: Krstić, Tijana (Editor), Terzioğlu, Derin (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston Brill 2020, 2020
Series:Islamic history and civilization. studies and texts
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Collection: JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Historicizing the Study of Sunni Islam in the Ottoman Empire, c. 1450-c. 1750 / Tijana Krstić
  • Part I. 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. Contrarian Voice: Şehzāde Ḳorḳud's (d. 919/1513) Writings on Kalām and the Early Articulation of Ottoman Sunnism / Nabil al-Tikriti
  • 4. Ibn Taymiyya, al-Siyāsa al-sharʻiyya and the Early Modern Ottomans / Derin Terzioğlu
  • 5. You Must Know Your Faith in Detail: Redefinition of the Role of Knowledge and Boundaries of Belief in Ottoman Catechisms (ʻilm-iḥāls) / Tijana Krstić
  • 6. How to Read Heresy in the Ottoman World / Nir Shafir
  • 7. Prayers, Commentaries, and the Edification of the Ottoman Supplicant / Guy Burak
  • Part II. Building a Pious Community: Spatial Dimensions of Sunnitization: 8. Lives and Afterlives of an Urban Institution and Its Spaces: The Early Ottoman ʻİmāret as Mosque / Çiğdem Kafescioğlu
  • 9. Abdāl-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 Sünnetçioğlu
  • 11. Piety and Presence in the Postclassical Sultanic Mosque / Ünver Rüstem
  • Includes bibliographical references and index
  • Part III. Sunnis, Shiʻis and Kızılbaş: The Context- and Genre-Specific Nature of Confessional Politics: 12. Neither Victim Nor Accomplice: The Kızılbaş as Borderland Actors in the Early Modern Ottoman Realm / Ayşe Baltacıoğlu-Brammer
  • 13. Reading Ottoman Sunnism through Islamic History: Approaches toward Yazīd b. Muʻāwiya in Ottoman Historical Writing / Vefa Erginbaş
  • 14. Islamic Discourse in Ottoman-Safavid Peacetime Diplomacy after 1049/1639
  • Selim Güngörürler
  • Index