Chapter Power, Patronage, and Confessionalism
Ottoman Politics as Seen through the Eyes of a Crimean Sufi, 1580-1593
Collection
European Research Council (ERC)Language
EnglishAbstract
The present article aims to contribute to a more nuanced understanding of both the
politics of Sufism and the practice of politics in the Ottoman Empire in the late sixteenth
century through a contextual study of the collection of letters written by the Halveti sheikh
İbrahim-i Kırımî (d. 1593) to Murad III (r. 1574-1595).
Keywords
Ottoman history, history of political thought, Sufism, confessionalism, SunnitizationISBN
9789605245535Publisher
Crete University PressPublication date and place
2019Grantor
Classification
History
History