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Caliphate Redefined - The Mystical Turn in Ottoman Political Thought (Hardcover)
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Caliphate Redefined - The Mystical Turn in Ottoman Political Thought (Hardcover)
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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, Huseyin
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.
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