Ottoman Sunnism

Vefa Erginbaş is an Assistant Professor of History at Providence College, USA. He has a Ph.D. in history, which he received from the Ohio State University. Erginbaş studies early modern Ottoman intellectual, social, and cultural history. His published works deal with the issues of religious sectarianism in the early modern Islamic world, as well as historical-writing in the Ottoman Empire and Enlightenment in the Islamic world.

• ContributorsAcknowledgmentsA Note on TransliterationChapter I: Introduction, Vefa ErginbaşChapter II: The Rise of the “Religion and State” Order: Re-Confessionalization of State and Society in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire, Rıza YıldırımChapter III: One Word, Many Implications: The Term “Kızılbaş” in the Early Modern Ottoman Context, Ayşe Baltacıoğlu-BrammerChapter IV: Reappraising Ottoman religiosity in the last decades of the sixteenth-century: Mustafa Darir’s Siret and its Alid content, Vefa ErginbaşChapter V: Confessionalization or a quest for order? A comparative look at religion and state in the seventeenth-century Ottoman, Russian, and Habsburg Empires, Yasir YılmazChapter VI: From the Hamzavīyye to the Melamiyye: Transformation of an Order in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul, F. Betül Yavuz Chapter VII: Fabricating the Great Mass: Heresy and Legitimate Plurality in Harputlu İshak Efendi’s Polemics against the Bektāşī Order, Benjamin Weineck Chapter VIII: The Ottoman Policy of "Correction of Belief(s)", Necati Alkan Chapter IX: Some Reflections on the Fluidity of Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy in an Ottoman Sunni Context, John J. CurryBIBLIOGRAPHY

Ottoman Sunnism offers a wide and rich range of perspectives on the nature of Ottoman Sunni Islam and the Ottoman confession building projects from the fifteenth through the nineteenth centuries. The different views and approaches will provoke discussions among scholars of Islam in the Ottoman Empire and well beyond.