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1 online resource |
| Contents |
Introduction : The ottomans and the caliphate ; The caliphate in the age of Suleyman ; The caliphate as a moral paradigm ; The caliphate as a moral paradigm ; The Rumi character of political writing ; Outline of the book -- The discourse on rulership : The age of angst: Turkish vernacularism and political expression ; The age of excitement: from conquest to exploration ; The age of perfection: from engagement to exceptionalism ; Imperial Turkish and the translation movement ; Four ways of writing on politics : Ethics ; Statecraft ; Juristic perspectives ; Sufistic visions. Languages of political thought -- The caliphate mystified : The Ottoman dawla ; The contest for the caliphate ; Rulers and dervishes ; The Ottoman dawla lost and found ; Converging and diverging spheres of authority -- The sultan and the sultanate : Reconciling visions of rulership ; The raison d’etre of the sultanate ; Rulership as grace from God ; The nature of the ruler ; The question of morality ; The status of rulership among humankind -- The caliph and the caliphate : God’s government ; The shadow of God on earth ; Prophethood as rulership ; The sultanate as caliphate ; Prophet’s successor and God’s vicegerent ; Rulership as mystical experience ; The caliphate as unified authority : From sultanate to the caliphate -- The myth of the Ottoman caliphate : God’s chosen dynasty ; Mystification of the origins ; Mehmed II and the making of the ottoman archetype ; Sulyeman I and designing the Ottoman epitome ; The seal of the caliphate |
| Summary |
The medieval theory of the caliphate, epitomized by the Abbasids (750-1258), was the construct of jurists who conceived it as a contractual leadership of the Muslim community in succession to the Prophet Muhammed's political authority. In this book, the author traces how a new conception of the caliphate emerged under the Ottomans, who redefined the caliph as at once a ruler, a spiritual guide, and a lawmaker corresponding to the prophet's three natures. Challenging conventional narratives that portray the Ottoman caliphate as a fading relic of medieval Islamic law, the book offers a novel interpretation of authority, sovereignty, and imperial ideology by examining how Ottoman political discourse led to the mystification of Muslim political ideals and redefined the caliphate. This work illuminates how Ottoman Sufis reimagined the caliphate as a manifestation and extension of cosmic divine governance. The Ottoman Empire arose in Western Anatolia and the Balkans, where charismatic Sufi leaders were perceived to be God's deputies on earth. The author traces how Ottoman rulers, in alliance with an increasingly powerful Sufi establishment, continuously refashioned and legitimated their rule through mystical imageries of authority, and how the caliphate itself reemerged as a moral paradigm that shaped early modern Muslim empires. This book presents a comprehensive study of premodern Ottoman political thought to offer an extensive analysis of a wealth of previously unstudied texts in Arabic, Persian, and Ottoman Turkish |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed December 14, 2017) |
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Religion and politics -- Turkey -- History
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Sufism -- Turkey -- History
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Islam and politics -- Turkey -- History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Folklore & Mythology.
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HISTORY -- Middle East -- Turkey & Ottoman Empire.
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Islam and politics
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Politics and government
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Religion and politics
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Sufism
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Turkey -- Politics and government -- To 1500
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Turkey
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781400888047 |
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1400888042 |
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0691174806 |
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9780691174808 |
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