SUFISM AND SUFIS IN OTTOMAN SOCIETY: Sources, Doctrine, Rituals, Turuq, Architecture, Literature, Iconography, Modernism

by Ocak, Ahmet Yasar, ed

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Book description: Ankara, Turkey: Türk Tarih Kurumu (Turkish Historical Society), 2005 xxxv, 650 pp. Plates (some in color), bibliographical footnotes, index. Only published in paperback (sewn binding). A massive collection of 22 essays (20 in English, 2 in French) by leading scholars of Islamic sufism in the Ottoman empire. CONTENTS: PART ONE: SOURCES. Archival sources for the history of sufism in the Ottoman period [Nejat Goyunc]. Basic sources for mystical thought in the Ottoman period [Suleyman Uludag]. Books about sufi terminology [Mustafa Kara]. PART TWO: ORIGINS AND DOCTRINE. Origins of Anatolian sufism [Ahmet T. Karamustafa]. La reception de la doctrine d'Ibn 'Arabi dans le monde ottoman [Michel Chodkiewicz]. PART THREE: RITUALS. Rituals and main principles of sufism during the Ottoman Empire [O. Tugrul Inancer]. Sufi order garments and accessories during the Ottoman Empire [Nurhan Atasoy]. PART FOUR: TURUQ AND THEIR GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION. General distributions of the sufi orders in Ottoman Anatolia [Osman Turer]. Les Turuq dans les Balkans a l'epoque ottomane [Nathalie Clayer-Alexandre Popovic]. A new look at the rise and expansion of the Khalidi sub-order [B. Abu-Manneh]. PART FIVE: ARCHITECTURE. Ottoman architecture and the sufi orders: Dervish lodges [M. Baha Tanman]. The position of the tekkes in Ottoman cities and urban districts: The Istanbul example [M. Baha Tanman]. The Tekye of Murad Ra'is on Rhodes [John Robert Barnes]. The Bektashi tekke of Durbali Sultan in Central-Greece [Machiel Kiel]. PART SIX: LITERATURE AND FINE ARTS. The theory of the dawr and the dawriyas in Ottoman sufi literature [Abdullah Ucman]. Music of the Ottoman sufi orders [Walter Feldman]. Sufi order sages in Ottoman calligraphy [M. Ugur Derman]. Illustration and the art of the book in the sufi orders in the Ottoman Empire [Filiz Cagman-Zeren Tanindi]. PART SEVEN: SUFISM AND MODERNISM. The social and cultural activities of the dervishes under the Second Constitution [Mustafa Kara]. Sufism and the sufi orders as a target of criticism and purge in contemporary Turkish thought [Ismail Kara]. The last generation of the Malamis: The transfer of tradition from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic and the problem of compatibility [Ruya Kilic]. Freemasonry revisited by the Muslim reformists and the sufis [Thierry Zarcone]. CONDITION: Like new (but with light overall rubbing and shelf-wear to card covers). OVERSIZED.. First Edition. Paperback. Like New. 24 x 17 cm.

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