Ibrahim-i Gulshani and the Khalwati-Gulshani Order

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-90-04-34101-2
Verlag: World Bank Publications

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 431 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 763 g

Reihe: Studies on Sufism

In Power Brokers in Ottoman Egypt, Side Emre documents the biography of Ibrahim-i Gulshani and the history of the Khalwati-Gulshani order of dervishes (c. 1440-1600). Set mainly in Mamluk-Egypt, and in the century following the region’s conquest by the Ottomans, this book analyzes sociopolitical dialogues at the geographic peripheries of an empire through the actions of and official responses to the Gulshaniyya network.

Emre argues that the members of this Sufi order exerted social and political leverage and contributed significantly to the political culture of the empire and Egypt. The Gulshanis are uncovered as unexpected figures among the roster of influential players, in contrast with empire-centered historiographies that depict Ottoman ruling and learned elites as the primary shapers and narrators of the fates of conquered provinces and peoples. The Gulshanis’ political and cultural legacy is situated within an analysis of perceptions of Sufism in the early modern Ottoman world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Emre, Side

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Geschichte des Islam Geschichte des Islam: Neuzeit
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Spiritualität & Mystik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Transliteration and Dating
Acknowledgments
Introduction

Chapter 1: Gülseni’s Biography in the Hagiographical Imagination (ca. 846–916/1442–1510)
Chapter 2: Arrival in a Safe Haven: Gülseni’s Early Years in Mamluk Egypt (913 or 916–923/1507 or 1510–17)
Chapter 3: Gülseni’s Relationships with the Last Two Mamluk Rulers
Chapter 4: After the Ottoman Conquest: A New Life Begins (923–31/1517–25)
Chapter 5:The Establishment of the Gülseniye Lodge Complex (925–31/1519–25)
Chapter 6:Heresy, Religious Innovation, and Law in Egypt (928–31/1522–25)
Chapter 7: Who is an Ideal Sufi? A Reconsideration of the “Heretical” Gülsenis in the Context of the “Ottoman Way”
Chapter 8:Later Egypt Years (930–31/1524–25) and the conflict between Gülseni and Ahmed Pasha
Chapter 9: Gülseni’s Final Years and the Gülseniye legacy (931–1019/1525–1610)
Chapter 10: Gülseni’s Heirs and the Founder’s Legacy in the Eleventh/Seventeenth Century

Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Side Emre, Ph.D. (2009, University of Chicago), is Assistant Professor of History at Texas A&M University. She has published numerous articles on the history of the Khalwati-Gulshani Order and on the socio-political and religio-cultural history of the Ottoman Empire.