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

Tijana Krstić, Ph.D. (2004), University of Michigan, is Associate Professor at Central European University in Vienna, Austria. She is the author of Contested Conversions to Islam (Stanford University Press, 2011) and various articles on early modern Ottoman cultural and religious history.Derin Terzioğlu, Ph.D. (1999), Harvard University, is Associate Professor of History at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul, Turkey. She has published articles on early modern Ottoman religious, cultural and intellectual history.

• AcknowledgmentsList of FiguresAbbreviationsNote on Transliteration1 Historicizing the Study of Sunni Islam in the Ottoman Empire, c. 1450–c. 1750Tijana KrstićPart 1 Rethinking Sunni Orthodoxy in Dialogue with the Past and the Present2 A New Hadith Culture? Arab Scholars and Ottoman Sunnitization in the Sixteenth CenturyHelen Pfeifer3 A Contrarian Voice: Şehzāde Ḳorḳud’s (d. 919/1513) Writings on Kalām and the Early Articulation of Ottoman SunnismNabil al-Tikriti4 Ibn Taymiyya, al-Siyāsa al-sharʿiyya, and the Early Modern OttomansDerin Terzioğlu5 You Must Know Your Faith in Detail: Redefinition of the Role of Knowledge and Boundaries of Belief in Ottoman Catechisms (ʿilm-i ḥāls)Tijana Krstić6 How to Read Heresy in the Ottoman WorldNir Shafir7 Prayers, Commentaries, and the Edification of the Ottoman SupplicantGuy BurakPart 2 Building a Pious Community: Spatial Dimensions of Sunnitization8 Lives and Afterlives of an Urban Institution and Its Spaces: The Early Ottoman ʿİmāret as MosqueÇiğdem Kafescioğlu9 Abdāl-affiliated Convents and “Sunnitizing” Halveti Dervishes in Sixteenth-Century Ottoman RumeliGrigor Boykov10 Attendance at the Five Daily Congregational Prayers, Imams and Their Communities in the Jurisprudential Debates during the Ottoman Age of SunnitizationH. Evren Sünnetçioğlu11 Piety and Presence in the Postclassical Sultanic MosqueÜnver RüstemPart 3 Sunnis, Shi‘is and Kızılbaş: The Context- and Genre-Specific Nature of Confessional Politics12 Neither Victim Nor Accomplice: The Kızılbaş as Borderland Actors in the Early Modern Ottoman RealmAyşe Baltacıoğlu-Brammer13 Reading Ottoman Sunnism through Islamic History: Approaches toward Yazīd b. Muʿāwiya in Ottoman Historical WritingVefa Erginbaş14 Islamic Discourse in Ottoman-Safavid Peacetime Diplomacy after 1049/1639Selim GüngörürlerIndex

"This collection of transformative essays provides much-needed contextualization and historicization of the concept of Sunnism in early modern Ottoman culture and practice... a fascinating, broad-ranging discussion of orthodoxy and orthopraxy as multiple, interwoven discursive processes that were and are situated in myriad historical moments and widespread geographical locations. Particularly impressive is how the essays each in different ways address the notorious (or celebrated) Ottoman institutionalization of tradition, belief, ritual, and interpretation as itself a nuanced engagement with ongoing local and global discourses, thereby drastically reconfiguring existing analyses of Ottoman bureaucracy writ large. This lively collection is a welcome intervention into one of the more exciting emergent scholarly conversations today... Summing Up: Highly recommended." - R. A. Miller, in: Choice Connect, July 2021 Vol. 58 No. 11