Historicizing Sunni Islam in the Ottoman Empire, c. 1450-c. 1750 / / edited by Tijana Krstić and Derin Terzioğlu.

• Superior document: Islamic History and Civilization Series ; Volume 177
• TeilnehmendeR: Krstić, Tijana,; Terzioğlu, Derin, 1969-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands : : Brill,, [2021]; ©2021
• Julkaisuvuosi: 2021
• Painos: First edition.
• Kieli: English
• Sarja: Islamic history and thought ; Volume 177.
• Ulkoasu: 1 online resource (xiii, 530 pages) :; illustrations; digital, PDF file(s).

Articles in Historicizing Sunni Islam in the Ottoman Empire explore what it meant to be a Sunni Muslim and how the concepts of tradition and orthodoxy were conceived and debated in the Ottoman empire between c. 1450 and c. 1750.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments -- List of Figures -- Abbreviations -- Note on Transliteration -- 1 Historicizing the Study of Sunni Islam in the Ottoman Empire, c. 1450-c. 1750 -- Tijana Krstić -- Part 1 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 A 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-i ḥāl s) -- 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 2 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 -- Part 3 Sunnis, Shi'is 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.