Historicizing Sunni Islam in the Ottoman Empire, c. 1450-c. 1750

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Articles collected in Historicizing Sunni Islam in the Ottoman Empire, c. 1450's 2013;c. 1750 engage with the idea that Sunnism itself has a history and trace how particular Islamic genres 's 2013; ranging from prayer manuals, heresiographies, creeds, hadith and fatwa collections, legal and theological treatises, and historiography to mosques and Su's FB01; convents 's 2013; 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, re's FB02;ecting critically on the concepts of 's 2018;tradition's 2019;, 's 2018;orthodoxy's 2019; and 's 2018;orthopraxy's 2019; 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.

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