Taming the Messiah : the formation of an Ottoman political public sphere, 1600-1700 / Asl̐uhan G̐uurb̐uuzel.
| Author/creator |
G̐uurb̐uuzel, Asl̐uhan, 1983- author. |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2023] |
| Description | xi, 318 pages ; 24 cm |
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| Contents | Introduction : taming the Messiah : the formation of an Ottoman political public sphere, 1600-1700 -- Politics and spectacle : changing norms of political participation in the seventeenth century -- Ottoman anti-puritanism : communal privacy and limits to public authority -- Sufi sovereignties in the Ottoman world : Sufi orders as dynasties -- A new volume for the old Mesnev̐ui : reviving the dual caliphate in the age of decentralization -- Language and historical consciousness : theories of progress in Ottoman early modernity -- Of coffeehouse saints : contesting surveillance in the early modern city -- Epilogue. |
| Abstract | "In the history of the Ottoman Empire, the seventeenth century has often been considered an anomaly, characterized by political dissent and social conflict. In this book, Asl̐uhan G̐uurb̐uuzel shows how the early modern period was, in fact, crucial to the formation of new kinds of political agency that challenged, negotiated with, and ultimately reshaped the Ottoman social order. By uncovering the histories of these new political voices and documenting the emergence of a robust public sphere, G̐uurb̐uuzel challenges two common assumptions: first, that the ideal of public political participation originated in the West; and second, that civic culture was introduced only with Westernization efforts in the nineteenth century. Contrary to these assumptions, which measure the Ottoman world against an idealized European prototype, Taming the Messiah offers a new method of studying public political life by focusing on the variety of religious visions and lifeworlds native to Ottoman society, particularly Sufism, and the ways in which they were appropriated and repurposed in the pursuit of new forms of civic engagement"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: G̐uurb̐uuzel, Asl̐uhan, 1983- Taming the Messiah [Oakland, California] : [University of California Press], [2022] 9780520388222 |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2022024388 |
| ISBN | 9780520388215 |
| ISBN | 0520388216 hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic book |
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