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Transforming Muslim mystical thought in the Ottoman Empire: the case of the Shabaniyye Order in Kastamonu and beyond

Curry, John Joseph, IV
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1117560455

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2005, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, History.
This dissertation represents an attempt to fill a troubling gap in the secondary scholarship on Islamic, and more specifically, Ottoman intellectual history. It examines the role of a prominent Islamic religio-mystical (Sufi) order, known from the fourteenth century onward as the Halveti, in the religious and intellectual life of the Ottoman Empire during the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Initially famed for their extended periods of ascetic withdrawal into remote areas for the purpose of breaking their carnal desires and engaging in undistracted worship of God, the Halvetis proved to be one of the more durable and influential Sufi brotherhoods in Anatolia, the Balkans, and the Arab lands. Unfortunately, the existing scholarship on the Halvetis is limited to specific geographical regions and/or to one of these three periods of Halveti prominence. In addition, scholars of the Halvetis have used hagiographical and biographical sources produced within the order without adequate contextualization. As a result, existing scholarship incorporates erroneous assumptions about the order’s practices and the nature of its social and political role throughout the Ottoman Empire. In order to challenge the received wisdom about the Halveti order and the history of Islamic mystical thought as a whole, this study tracks the consolidation and development of the Halveti order from the end of the fifteenth century through the first half of the eighteenth century, focusing in particular on a provincial sub-branch of the order known as the Shabaniyye. The development of this sub-order serves as a window onto developments among the Halvetis as a whole, since each Halveti sub-branch remained autonomous and incubated its own peculiar practices and traditions. Founded in the city of Kastamonu, a venerable Islamic center in northern Anatolia, and centered on the historical figure of Shaban-i Veli, the Shabaniyye were seldom recognized by influential Halveti shaykhs and intellectuals in Istanbul over the course of the 16th century, even though Sultan Murad III (r. 1574-1595) took on a Shabaniyye shaykh as his personal confidant. Nevertheless, the power and influence of the Shabaniyye had spread throughout the Islamic world, from the Balkans to Egypt.
Jane Hathaway (Advisor)
429 p.
Halveti; Khalwati; tariqa; tarikat; Ottoman Empire; Turkish History; Mysticism; Sufism; Saints; Sainthood; Islamic History; Muslim Religious Movements

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  • Curry, IV, J. J. (2005). Transforming Muslim mystical thought in the Ottoman Empire: the case of the Shabaniyye Order in Kastamonu and beyond [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1117560455

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Curry, IV, John. Transforming Muslim mystical thought in the Ottoman Empire: the case of the Shabaniyye Order in Kastamonu and beyond. 2005. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1117560455.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Curry, IV, John. "Transforming Muslim mystical thought in the Ottoman Empire: the case of the Shabaniyye Order in Kastamonu and beyond." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1117560455

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