Living in the Ottoman Realm. Empire and Identity, 13th to 20th Centuries

84 | A Shaykh, a Prince, and a Sack of Corn with the Ottoman polity. Belonging to the Amasyan network, the Halvetiye naturally s ...

Karataş|85 were stripped of any benefit or control over their shares. The six shares given to Karamani’s daughter, Hatice Hatun, ...

86 | A Shaykh, a Prince, and a Sack of Corn the expedition, he [Bayezid] is boundlessly agonized and depressed. Thanks to your h ...

Karataş|87 This letter is an invaluable source for understanding the psyche of a Halveti shaykh who wanted to become a part of t ...

88 | A Shaykh, a Prince, and a Sack of Corn considering that it was written by a member of a marginalized Sufi order to the sult ...

Karataş|89 of Sultan Bayezid II and became the shaykh of the sultan. He enjoyed royal patronage until his death. Karamani, howev ...

90 | A Shaykh, a Prince, and a Sack of Corn . “Mulk” is the seventh chapter of the Koran, named after its first verse, which po ...

pa rt I I th through th Centuries Expansion and Cultural Splendor: The Creation of a Sunni Islamic Empire Building on the ac ...

92 | Living in the Ottoman Realm was conducted by the imperial divan. During the reign of Süleyman, female members of the imperi ...

15th through 17th Centuries | 93 All the chapters in this section focus on the reign of Süleyman the Mag- nificent, during which ...

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Ibn-i Kemal’s Confessionalism and the Construction of an Ottoman Islam Nabil Al-Tikriti The Safavid Challenge Following several ...

96 | Ibn-i Kemal’s Confessionalism After the Safavids launched their revolution in 1499, a decadelong drive to consolidate power ...

Al-Tikriti|97 their legitimacy, their tentative moves proved wholly insufficient to match the Safavid threat. The Safavid revolu ...

98 | Ibn-i Kemal’s Confessionalism as “Sunni” orthopraxy, or correct behavior. Those who did not comply with such norms of corre ...

Al-Tikriti|99 majority of each population and continues to mark a flashpoint for occasional sectarian conflict today. Ibn-i Kema ...

100 | Ibn-i Kemal’s Confessionalism translated as “general,” but it was used as a broad title of distinction for several types o ...

Al-Tikriti|101 processes, when the outcome was not yet determined, and when positions were not as fixed as they would later beco ...

102 | Ibn-i Kemal’s Confessionalism in imperial registers. While these figures were meant to satisfy norms of liter- ary convent ...

Al-Tikriti|103 them as righteous as the rest of the righteous Muslims, as opposed to one’s ap- pearance as a zindīq [secret nonb ...