Ottoman Sunnism

Ottoman Sunnism New Perspectives Edited by Vefa Erginbaş 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. 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. Hardback £80 | $125 October 2019 272 pages ISBN: 9781474443319 Also available in ebook Save 30% when you order direct • If you’re ordering from Europe, Asia, Africa or Oceania, please visit edinburghuniversitypress.com and enter the discount code NEW30 • If you’re ordering from the Americas, visit oup.com/us and use the code ADISTA5 Offer valid until 31st January 2020; does not include postage and packaging. Any questions? Get in touch: marketing@eup.ed.ac.uk www.edinburghuniversitypress.com OTTOMAN SUNNISM ERGINBAS 9781474443319 PRINT.indd 1 25/09/2019 09:35 Edinburgh Studies on the Ottoman Empire Series Editor: Kent F. Schull Published and forthcoming titles Migrating Texts: Circulating Translations around the Ottoman Mediterranean Edited by Marilyn Booth Ottoman Sunnism: New Perspectives Edited by Vefa Erginbaş The Politics of Armenian Migration to North America, 1885–1915: Sojourners, Smugglers and Dubious Citizens David E. Gutman The Kizilbash-Alevis in Ottoman Anatolia: Sufism, Politics and Community Ayfer Karakaya-Stump Çemberlitaş Hamami in Istanbul: The Biographical Memoir of a Turkish Bath Nina Macaraig Nineteenth-Century Local Governance in Ottoman Bulgaria: Politics in Provincial Councils l Prisons in the Late Ottoman Empire: Microcosms of Modernity Kent F. Schull Ruler Visibility and Popular Belonging in the Ottoman Empire Darin Stephanov Children and Childhood in the Ottoman Empire: From the Fourteenth to the Twentieth Centuries Edited by Gulay Yilma and Fruma Zachs edinburghuniversitypress.com/series/esoe ERGINBAS 9781474443319 PRINT.indd 2 25/09/2019 09:35 OTTOMAN SUNNISM NEW PERSPECTIVES 2 Edited by Vefa Erginbaş ERGINBAS 9781474443319 PRINT.indd 3 25/09/2019 09:35 Edinburgh University Press is one of the leading university presses in the UK. We publish academic books and journals in our selected subject areas across the humanities and social sciences, combining cutting-edge scholarship with high editorial and production values to produce academic works of lasting importance. For more information visit our website: edinburghuniversitypress.com © editorial matter and organisation Vefa Erginbaş, 2019 © the chapters their several authors, 2019 Edinburgh University Press Ltd The Tun – Holyrood Road 12 (2f) Jackson’s Entry Edinburgh EH8 8PJ Typeset in Jaghbuni by Servis Filmsetting Ltd, Stockport, Cheshire, and printed and bound in Great Britain A CIP record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 978 1 4744 4331 9 (hardback) ISBN 978 1 4744 4333 3 (webready PDF) ISBN 978 1 4744 4334 0 (epub) e i e i ei e i e i ee e e in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 and the Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 2003 (SI No. 2498). ERGINBAS 9781474443319 PRINT.indd 4 25/09/2019 09:35 Contents Contributors Acknowledgements Note on Transliteration 1. Introduction Vefa Erginbaş 2. The Rise of the ‘Religion and State’ Order: Re-confessionalisation of State and Society in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire Rıza Yıldırım vii xi xiii 1 12 3. One Word, Many Implications: The Term ‘Kızılbaş’ in the Early Modern Ottoman Context Ayşe Baltacıoğlu-Brammer 47 4. Reappraising Ottoman Religiosity in the Last Decades of the Sixteenth Century: Mustafa Darir’s Siret and its Alid Content Vefa Erginbaş 71 5. Confessionalisation or a Quest for Order? A Comparative Look at Religion and State in the Seventeenth-century Ottoman, Russian and Habsburg Empires Yasir Yılmaz 6. From the Hamzaviyye to the Melāmiyye: Transformation of an Order in Seventeenth-century Istanbul F. Betül Yavuz ERGINBAS 9781474443319 PRINT.indd 5 90 121 25/09/2019 09:35 Ottoman Sunnism 7. Fabricating the Great Mass: Heresy and Legitimate Plurality in l e i lemi i e Bektaşi Order Benjamin Weineck 8. The Ottoman Policy of ‘Correction of Belief(s)’ Necati Alkan me e e i e l i iy in an Ottoman Sunni Context John J. Curry y 146 166 ee y 193 Bibliography Index 211 247 vi ERGINBAS 9781474443319 PRINT.indd 6 25/09/2019 09:35