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Author Yılmaz, Hüseyin, author
Title Caliphate redefined : the mystical turn in Ottoman political thought / Hüseyin Yılmaz
Imprint Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2018
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 Internet  BL793.T8    Online
Access Available to OhioLINK libraries
Bibliog. Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Translation, Transliteration, and Pronunciation -- Introduction -- Abbreviations -- The Discourse on Rulership -- The Caliphate Mystified -- The Sultan and the Sultanate -- The Caliph and the Caliphate -- The Myth of the Ottoman Caliphate -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index
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, Hüseyin Yilmaz 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, Yilmaz 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. He 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. Yilmaz 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. A masterful work of scholarship, Caliphate Redefined is the first 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
Note Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed December 14, 2017)
OCLC # 1014328695
Phys. Description 1 online resource
Other author Ohio Library and Information Network.
ISBN 9781400888047 (electronic bk.)
1400888042 (electronic bk.)
9780691174808
Subjects Religion and politics -- Turkey -- History.
Sufism -- Turkey -- History.
Islam and politics -- Turkey -- History.
Turkey -- Politics and government -- To 1500.
Turkey.
Genre Electronic books
History.