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Ottoman Puritanism and Its Discontents: Ahmad alAqhisari and the Qadizadelis (Oxford Theology and Religion Monographs),Used
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This book is about the emergence of a new activist Sufism in the Muslim world from the sixteenth century onwards, which emphasized personal responsibility for putting God's guidance into practice. It focuses specifically on developments at the centre of the Ottoman Empire, but also considers both how they might have been influenced by the wider connections and engagements of learned and holy men and how their influence might have been spread from the Ottoman Empire to South Asia in particular. The immediate focus is on the Qadizadeli movement which flourished in Istanbul from the 1620s to the 1680s and which inveighed against corrupt scholars and heterodox Sufis. The book aims by studying the relationship between Ahmad alRumi alAqhisari's magisterial Majalis alabrar and Qadizadeli beliefs to place both author and the movement in an Ottoman, Hanafi, and Sufi milieu. In so doing, it breaks new ground, both in bringing to light alAqhisari's writings, and methodologically, in Ottoman studies at least, in employing linebyline textual comparisons to ascertain the borrowings and influences linking alAqhisari to medieval Islamic thinkers such as Ahmad b. Taymiyya and Ibn Qayyim alJawziyya, as well as to several nearcontemporaries. Most significantly, the book finally puts to rest the strict dichotomy between Qadizadeli reformism and Sufism, a dichotomy that with too few exceptions continues to be the mainstay of the existing literature.
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