Description: Further DetailsTitle: Caliphate RedefinedCondition: NewEAN: 9780691174808ISBN: 9780691174808Publisher: Princeton University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 01/08/2018Item Height: 235mmItem Length: 152mmItem Weight: 680gLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: The Mystical Turn in Ottoman Political ThoughtISBN-10: 0691174806Description: 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.Country/Region of Manufacture: USAuthor: Hüseyin YılmazGenre: Philosophy & SpiritualityTopic: Society & Culture, Social Sciences, Law & Politics, HistoryRelease Year: 2018 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Caliphate Redefined
Title: Caliphate Redefined
EAN: 9780691174808
ISBN: 9780691174808
Release Date: 01/08/2018
Release Year: 2018
Subtitle: The Mystical Turn in Ottoman Political Thought
ISBN-10: 0691174806
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality
Topic: History
Number of Pages: 384 Pages
Publication Name: Caliphate Redefined : the Mystical Turn in Ottoman Political Thought
Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Subject: Mysticism, Middle East / Turkey & Ottoman Empire, World / Middle Eastern, Islam / Sufi, Religion, Politics & State
Publication Year: 2018
Item Height: 1.2 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 24.1 Oz
Item Length: 9.3 in
Author: Hüseyin YıLmaz
Subject Area: Religion, Political Science, History
Item Width: 6.5 in
Format: Hardcover
