Ottoman Sunnism : New,
' New Perspectives '
[A5+] Paperback - 267 pages,
Edited by Vefa Erginbas,
by Edinburgh Studies on the Ottoman Empire.
Description :
Addressing 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.
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 subject,
- Contributes to the ongoing debate regarding confessionalisation in the Ottoman Empire,
- Explains and – where necessary – revises various understandings of Ottoman religion,
- Reflects 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 insights.
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.
Contributors :
- Necati Alkan, University of Bamberg,
- Ayşe Baltacıoğlu-Brammer, New York University,
- John 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.
Reviews :
Ottoman Sunnism offers a wide and rich range of perspectives on the nature of Ottoman Sunni Islam and the Ottoman confession building projects from the fifteenth through the nineteenth centuries. The different views and approaches will provoke discussions among scholars of Islam in the Ottoman Empire and well beyond.– Guy Burak, New York University.
Overall, this volume is strongly written and well-constructed, with a forceful message. Totally fascinating, Ottoman Sunnism: New Perspectives is a magnificent achievement that must be considered a work of high academic art created by researchers of obviously commanding talents, judgement, balance and moral vision.– Abdullah Drury, University of Waikato, The Muslim World Book Review, 42:3, 2022.
Vefa Erginbaş is an Assistant Professor of History at Providence College, USA. He has a Ph.D. in history, which he received from the Ohio State University. Erginbaş studies early modern Ottoman intellectual, social, and cultural history. His published works deal with the issues of religious sectarianism in the early modern Islamic world, as well as historical-writing in the Ottoman Empire and Enlightenment in the Islamic world.
Table of Contents :
---Contributors,
---Acknowledgments,
---A Note on Transliteration,
---[Chapter I]: Introduction, Vefa Erginbaş,
---[Chapter II]: The Rise of the “Religion and State” Order: Re-Confessionalization of State and Society in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire, Rıza Yıldırım
---[Chapter III]: One Word, Many Implications: The Term “Kızılbaş” in the Early Modern Ottoman Context, Ayşe Baltacıoğlu-Brammer
---[Chapter IV]: Reappraising Ottoman religiosity in the last decades of the sixteenth-century: Mustafa Darir’s Siret and its Alid content, Vefa Erginbaş
---[Chapter V]: Confessionalisation or a quest for order? A comparative look at religion and state in the seventeenth-century Ottoman, Russian, and Habsburg Empires, Yasir Yılmaz
---[Chapter VI]: From the Hamzavīyye to the Melamiyye: Transformation of an Order in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul, F. Betül Yavuz
---[Chapter VII]: Fabricating the Great Mass: Heresy and Legitimate Plurality in Harputlu İshak Efendi’s Polemics against the Bektāşī Order, Benjamin Weineck
---[Chapter VIII]: The Ottoman Policy of "Correction of Belief(s)", Necati Alkan
---[Chapter IX]: Some Reflections on the Fluidity of Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy in an Ottoman Sunni Context, John J. Curry
---Bibliography,
---Index.
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Dimensions : 23.2 x 15.7cm
