Ali Fuat Bilkan. Fakihler ve Sofuların Kavgası: 17. Yüzyılda Kadızadeliler ve Sivasiler

Year 2016, Volume: 21 Issue: 41, 0 - 0, 29.03.2017

Fatma Deniz

https://doi.org/10.20519/divan.315110

Abstract

Emerging
in the seventeenth-century the Ottoman Empire, the puritan Kadızadeli movement had religious and socio-political dimensions. Ali
Fuat Bilkan’s book, Fakihler ve Sofuların Kavgası 17. Yüzyılda Kadızadeliler
ve Sivasiler (The Struggle of
Jurists and Sufis: Kadızadelis and Sivasis), is one of the rare works examining the movement with
attention to the socio-political and social context in which it emerged. Relying
on a host of primary and secondary sources, Bilkan’s study fills a significant gap
in the Ottoman historical scholarship. It analyses the debates between Kadızadelis, preachers who put emphasis
on Islamic law (fiqh) and prioritize
the external aspects of Islam over spiritual experience, and Sivasis, Sufis, who took mystical
experience seriously in addition to performing external religious rituals. The
author successfully shows that the Kadızadeli-Sivasi
debate was one of many others that either had taken
before or would emerge in the following period.

Keywords

17. Yüzyıl Osmanlı Tarihi, Osmanlı'da Dinî Hareketler

References

• Ali Fuat Bilkan. Fakihler ve Sofuların Kavgası: 17. Yüzyılda Kadızadeliler ve Sivasiler. İstanbul: İletişim Yayınları, 2016