Historicizing Sunni Islam in the Ottoman Empire, c. 1450-c. 1750 (Islamic History and Civilization, 177)

"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 theological treatises, and historiography to mosques and Sufi convents-developed and were reinterpreted in the Ottoman Empire between c. 1450 and c. 1750. The volume epitomizes the growing scholarly interest in historicizing Islamic discourses and practices of the post-classical era, which has heretofore been styled as a period of decline, reflecting critically on the concepts of 'tradition', 'orthodoxy' and 'orthopraxy' as they were conceived and debated in the context of building and maintaining the longest-lasting Muslim-ruled empire. Contributors: Helen Pfeifer; Nabil al-Tikriti; Derin Terzioğlu; Tijana Krstić; Nir Shafir; Guy Burak; Çiğdem Kafesçioğlu; Grigor Boykov; H. Evren Sünnetçioğlu; Ünver Rüstem; Ayşe Baltacıoğlu-Brammer; Vefa Erginbaş; Selim Güngörürler"-- Provided by publisher ‎Contents ‎Acknowledgments ‎Figures ‎Abbreviations ‎Note on Transliteration ‎Chapter 1. Historicizing the Study of Sunni Islam in the Ottoman Empire, c. 1450–c. 1750 (Krstić) ‎Part 1. Rethinking Sunni Orthodoxy in Dialogue with the Past and the Present ‎Chapter 2. A New Hadith Culture? Arab Scholars and Ottoman Sunnitization in the Sixteenth Century (Pfeifer) ‎Chapter 3. A Contrarian Voice: Şehzāde Ḳorḳud’s (d. 919/1513) Writings on Kalām and the Early Articulation of Ottoman Sunnism (Al-Tikriti) ‎Chapter 4. Ibn Taymiyya, al-Siyāsa al-Sharʿiyya, and the Early Modern Ottomans (Terzı̇oğlu) ‎Chapter 5. You Must Know Your Faith in Detail: Redefinition of the Role of Knowledge and Boundaries of Belief in Ottoman Catechisms (ʿİlm-i ḥāls) (Krstić) ‎Chapter 6. How to Read Heresy in the Ottoman World (Shafir) ‎Chapter 7. Prayers, Commentaries, and the Edification of the Ottoman Supplicant (Burak) ‎Part 2. Building a Pious Community: Spatial Dimensions of Sunnitization ‎Chapter 8. Lives and Afterlives of an Urban Institution and Its Spaces: The Early Ottoman ʿİmāret as Mosque (Kafescı̇oğlu) ‎Chapter 9. Abdāl-affiliated Convents and “Sunnitizing” Halveti Dervishes in Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Rumeli (Boykov) ‎Chapter 10. Attendance at the Five Daily Congregational Prayers, Imams and Their Communities in the Jurisprudential Debates during the Ottoman Age of Sunnitization (Sünnetçı̇oğlu) ‎Chapter 11. Piety and Presence in the Postclassical Sultanic Mosque (Rüstem) ‎Part 3. Sunnis, Shi‘is, and Kızılbaş: The Context- and Genre-Specific Nature of Confessional Politics ‎Chapter 12. Neither Victim Nor Accomplice: The Kızılbaş as Borderland Actors in the Early Modern Ottoman Realm (Baltacıoğlu-Brammer) ‎Chapter 13. Reading Ottoman Sunnism through Islamic History: Approaches toward Yazīd b. Muʿāwiya in Ottoman Historical Writing (Erginbaş) ‎Chapter 14. Islamic Discourse in Ottoman-Safavid Peacetime Diplomacy after 1049/1639 (Güngörürler) ‎Index of Geographical Names ‎Index of Personal Names ‎Index of Quranic References ‎Index of Titles of Premodern Books ‎Index of General Terms 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 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 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 theological treatises, and historiography to mosques and Sufi convents – developed and were reinterpreted in the Ottoman Empire between c. 1450 and c. 1750. The volume epitomizes the growing scholarly interest in historicizing Islamic discourses and practices of the post-classical era, which has heretofore been styled as a period of decline, reflecting critically on the concepts of ‘tradition’, ‘orthodoxy’ and ‘orthopraxy’ as they were conceived and debated in the context of building and maintaining the longest-lasting Muslim-ruled empire. Readership: All interested in the debates on Sunni Islam and in the politics of religion and confessionalism in the early modern Ottoman Empire and in “post-classical” Islamic history more generally. 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.