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

Includes bibliographical references and 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

Part III. Sunnis, Shiʻis 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.

"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

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