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Ottoman Puritanism and its Discontents - Ahmad al-Rumi al-Aqhisari and the Qadizadelis (Hardcover)
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Ottoman Puritanism and its Discontents - Ahmad al-Rumi al-Aqhisari and the Qadizadelis (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Theology and Religion Monographs
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This book is about the emergence of a new activist Sufism in the
Muslim world from the sixteenth century onwards, which emphasized
personal responsibility for putting Godas guidance into practice.
It focuses specifically on developments at the centre of the
Ottoman Empire, but also considers both how they might have been
influenced by the wider connections and engagements of learned and
holy men and how their influence might have been spread from the
Ottoman Empire to South Asia in particular. The immediate focus is
on the Qadizadeli movement which flourished in Istanbul from the
1620s to the 1680s and which inveighed against corrupt scholars and
heterodox Sufis. The book aims by studying the relationship between
Ahmad al-Rumi al-Aqhisarias magisterial Majalis al-abrar and
Qadizadeli beliefs to place both author and the movement in an
Ottoman, Hanafi, and Sufi milieu. In so doing, it breaks new
ground, both in bringing to light al-Aqhisarias writings, and
methodologically, in Ottoman studies at least, in employing
line-by-line textual comparisons to ascertain the borrowings and
influences linking al-Aqhisari to medieval Islamic thinkers such as
Ahmad b. Taymiyya and Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya, as well as to several
near-contemporaries. Most significantly, the book finally puts to
rest the strict dichotomy between Qadizadeli reformism and Sufism,
a dichotomy that with too few exceptions continues to be the
mainstay of the existing literature.
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