Virtue, piety and the law : a study of Birgivī Meḥmed Efendī's "Al-Ṭarīqah al-muḥammadīyah" / by Katharina A. Ivanyi

• Superior document: The Ottoman Empire and its heritage volume 72
• VerfasserIn: Ivanyi, Katharina
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Boston : Brill, [2020]
• Any de publicació: 2020
• Idioma: English
• Col·lecció: The Ottoman Empire and its heritage volume 72
• Descripció física: VII, 266 Seiten
• Notes: Literaturangaben Seite [237]-258
• Sumari: "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, Birgivīplayed a significant role in the negotiation and articulation of early modern Ottoman Ḥanafīpiety. 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"--
• ISBN: 9789004419865
• ac_no: AC16221060
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: by Katharina A. Ivanyi

"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 religios...