TY  - JOUR
TT  - Caliphate Redefined: The Mystical Turn in Ottoman Political Thought
AU  - Erbil, Arif
PY  - 2020
DA  - January
DO  - 10.26570/isad.650340
JF  - İslam Araştırmaları Dergisi
JO  - isad
PB  - Turkish Religious Foundation Centre for Islamic Studies
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 1301-3289
SP  - 220
EP  - 223
IS  - 43
LA  - en
KW  - caliphate
KW  - Ottoman
N2  - HüseyinYılmaz’s Caliphate Redefined: The Mystical Turn in Ottoman Political Thought,the product of many years of research, is a seminal work in the history ofOttoman political thought. The book focuses on Ottoman political thought duringthe reign of Süleyman I (1520-1566) but connects this period more broadly withthe rise of mystical conceptions of political authority in the post-Abbasidera. To do this, the author creatively and uniquely examines and engages inmany different genres and texts that were “limited to Rumi expositionsof political thought that include Ottoman authors who either dedicated theirworks to the sultan or lived in the core provinces of Asia Minor and theBalkans” (p. 10). Moreover, the author takes the intellectual exchanges betweenthis cultural geography and the wider cultural geographical expanse that hasbeen recently dubbed the “Balkans-to-Bengal Complex” and argues that themystical turn, which mainly indicates a Sufistic tone in the post-Abbasid era,gave shape to Ottoman political thought from the very beginning of the state tothe end of the sixteenth century.
CR  - Kâtip Çelebi, Keşfü’z-zunûn an esâmi’l-kütübi ve’l-fünün, ed. Rüştü Balcı, İstanbul:
Tarih Vakfı Yurt Yayınları, 2007, I, 202; Emir Ca’fer Tugrâ’î, “Enîsü’l-Arifîn Tercümesi”
06 Mil Yz A 3816, fols. 4a-5a.
CR  - Shahab Ahmed, What is Islam: The Importance of Being Islamic, Princeton University
Press, 2016.
UR  - https://doi.org/10.26570/isad.650340
L1  - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/860995
ER  -