...John J. Curry Political involvement on the part of prominent Sufi leaders was also checked by the rise of puritanical Muslim reform movements throughout the Ottoman domains. These movements have been broadly subsumed under the term Kadızâdeli , which describes the followers of Kadızâde Mehmed...

... sources in Halilname . First, the Ottoman state did not have a canonized orthodox Islamic system until Süleyman I (r. 1520–66), and this lack of canonization gave Islamic mystics greater liberty to say what they wanted. Second, a zeitgeist of religious syncretism drew inspiration from the mysticism...

... Exhibition, accessories are often accepted in lieu of internal character. (149) Madame Moitessier/Mrs. Merdle, celebrated for her marmoreal beauty, is likewise a decoration, an accessory rather than an inter­ nal character. Dickens develops this idea of useless beauty in the ottoman on which he seats her...

... In many ways she appears ripe for an O rientalist reading since she, herself, seems to be "O riental" in the conventional sense of the term, given tha t she in itially seeks and receives some version of "O riental" splendor. When mandated by Ottoman authorities to be both a proper "Eastern" and "W estern...

... system of absorbing Christian boys into the Ottoman hierarchy, or the seventeenth-century collusion between Ottoman corsairs and their English Protestant counterparts against the Catholic regimes of southern Europe. If we were to speak sweepingly of “Christians” and “Muslims” in these instances, even...

... constitutes the Mediterranean, see Horden and Purcell, Corrupting Sea . 3 The first and most extensive exploration of these shared spaces in the Ottoman Mediterranean is found in Hasluck, Christianity and Islam . 4 For an examination of these phenomena in the modern period, see Albera...

... ideology and the meaning of his teachings, his community’s relationship to those holding political power, first the Seljuks and Mongols and later the Ottomans, demands further study. Yet to do so without also “essaying the dance,” that is, without being attentive to the lived and embodied elements of Sufi...

..., a medieval Ottoman Islamic scholar. For Durak, however, who traces the origins of the story of Abraham as it was told in the Sufi tradition to a particular Jewish text, the payoff of comparison lies in those places where parts of the Hebrew Bible and midrashic stories about Abraham surface and recede...

... of the Ottoman Empire to cultivate a fierce fighting spirit? 44 In general, the effects of the opium poppy appear to have been widely known in seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England. In a murder trial from 1695, a London man was found guilty of a “most cruel” crime that involved a man killing...