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Architecture and Hagiography in the Ottoman Empire - The Politics of Bektashi Shrines in the Classical Age (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Architecture and Hagiography in the Ottoman Empire - The Politics of Bektashi Shrines in the Classical Age (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Based on a thorough examination of buildings, inscriptions,
archival documents and hagiographies, this book uncovers the
political significance of Bektashi shrines in the Ottoman imperial
age. It thus provides a fresh and comprehensive account of the
formative process of the Bektashi order, which started out as a
network of social groups that took issue with Ottoman imperial
policies in the late fifteenth century, was endorsed imperially as
part of Bayezid II's (r. 1481-1512) soft power policy, and was kept
in check by imperial authorities as the Ottoman approach to the
Safavid conflict hardened during the rest of the sixteenth century.
This book demonstrates that it was a combination of two collective
activities that established the primary parameters of Bektashi
culture from the late fifteenth century onwards. One was the
writing of Bektashi hagiographies; they linked hitherto distinct
social groups (such as wandering dervishes and warriors) with each
other through the lives of historical figures who were their patron
saints, idols and identity markers (such as the saint HacAE+/-
BektaAY and the martyr Seyyid Gazi), while incorporating them into
Ottoman history in creative ways. The other one was the
architectural remodelling of the saints' shrines. In terms of
style, imagery and content, this interrelated literary and
architectural output reveals a complicated process of negotiation
with the imperial order and its cultural paradigms. Examined in
more detail in the book are the shrines of Seyyid Gazi and HacAE+/-
BektaAY and associated legends and hagiographies. Though
established as independent institutions in medieval Anatolia, they
were joined in the emerging Bektashi network under the Ottomans,
became its principal centres and underwent radical architectural
transformation, mainly under the patronage of raider commanders
based in the Balkans. In the process, they thus came to occupy an
intermediary socio-political zone between the Ottoman empire and
its contestants in the sixteenth century.
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