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This chapter appears in the book, Historicizing Sunni Islam in the Ottoman Empire, c. 1450-c. 1750. Edited by Tijana Krstic and Derin Terzioglu.
Chapter abstract: What characterizes Ottoman Sunnism, and how did it come to be? The conventional view is that by roughly the middle of the sixteenth century the imperial elite came to adopt and promote a particular religious identity, which can be characterized by several overlapping, interrelated, and historically defined denominational (madhhab) affiliations, as well as a particular relationship with the political hierarchy. The favored denominations included Hanafi legal affiliation and Maturidi kalām orientation, accompanied by elite support for particular aspects of mystical thought and practice, a cooperative relationship between favored Sufi orders and the state, and advanced integration of the ulama into a state-supported madrasa system.1 The scholarly literature on the evolution of these markers of belonging, as well as their meaning and con- tent in an Ottoman context, has blossomed in recent years; however, much still remains to be clarified concerning the characteristics of this posited “Ottoman Sunnism” and how it came to be.
ISBN
978-90-04-44029-6
Publication Date
2021
Publisher
Brill
City
Boston
Keywords
Ottoman, Sunni Islam, Sehzade Korkud, Kalam
Disciplines
Islamic World and Near East History | Political History | Social History
Recommended Citation
Al-Tikriti, Nabil, "Ch. 3: A Contrarian Voice: Şehzāde Ḳorḳud’s (d. 919/1513) Writings on Kalām and the Early Articulation of Ottoman Sunnism" (2021). Books and Chapters. 12.
https://scholar.umw.edu/hist_amst_books/12
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This is an open access chapter distributed under the terms of the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.
The definitive article is also available on the JSTOR website at: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1163/j.ctv1sr6j2v.9.