Ch. 7: Ibn-i Kemal's Confessionalism and the Construction of an "Ottoman" Islam
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This chapter appears in the book, Living in the Ottoman Realm: Empire and Identity, 13th to 20th Centuries. Edited by Christine Isom-Verhaaren and Kent F. Schull.
Chapter abstract: Following several decades of intellectual ferment and ideological experimentation, the Ottoman Empire faced a serious ideological challenge from an aggressive and revolutionary Safavid movement around the turn of the sixteenth century. Historians differ on the precise origin and date of this challenge, largely because no single event has come to define it. The full story of the rise of the Safavid movement is long, starting with a gradual and somewhat mysterious evolution from a quiescent local Sufi order in the early fourteenth century to a powerful revolutionary force by the middle of the fifteenth century. Two generations of Safavid-led uprisings in the 1460s and 1480s were soundly crushed by sovereign dynasties in the Caucasus. However, by the next decade, the movement rose to regional dominance as the sprawling Aqqoyunlu Empire unraveled in the wake of several violent succession struggles. Once this revolutionary Sufi movement took formal political power with its 1501 capture of Tabriz, Ottoman officials were forced to take action to counter what had by then evolved into a serious ideological threat.
ISBN
9780253019431
Publication Date
2016
Publisher
Indiana University Press
City
Bloomington
Keywords
Ottoman empire, Safavid, Social conditions, Sufi, Politics
Disciplines
Islamic World and Near East History | Political History | Social History
Recommended Citation
Al-Tikriti, Nabil, "Ch. 7: Ibn-i Kemal's Confessionalism and the Construction of an "Ottoman" Islam" (2016). Books and Chapters. 11.
https://scholar.umw.edu/hist_amst_books/11