Sufism in Ottoman Damascus

• Verfasst von: Pantić, Nikola [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Sufism in Ottoman Damascus
• Titelzusatz: religion, magic, and the eighteenth-century networks of the holy
• Verf.angabe: Nikola Pantić
• Verlagsort: London ; New York
• Verlag: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
• Jahr: 2024
• Umfang: ix, 240 Seiten
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Routledge Sufi series ; 31
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 978-1-032-49802-7
• ISBN: 978-1-032-49797-6
• Schlagwörter: (g)Osmanisches Reich / (g)Damaskus / (s)Sufismus
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Pantić, Nikola: Sufism in Ottoman Damascus. - London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2024 |(DLC)2023018808
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Pantic, Nikola, 1927 - : Sufism in Ottoman Damascus. - Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2023. - 1 online resource (251 pages)
• K10plus-PPN: 1848656750

Abstract

"Sufism in Ottoman Damascus analyzes thaumaturgical beliefs and practices prevalent among Muslims in eighteenth-century Ottoman Syria. The study focuses on historical beliefs in baraka, which religious authorities often interpreted as Allah's grace, and the alleged Sufi-ulamaic role in distributing it to Ottoman subjects. This book highlights considerable overlaps between Sufis and ulama with state appointments in early modern Province of Damascus, arguing for the possibility of sociologically defining a Muslim priestly sodality, a group of religious authorities and wonder-workers responsible for Sunni orthodoxy in the Ottoman Empire. The Sufi-ulama were integral to Ottoman networks of the holy, networks of grace that comprised of hallowed individuals, places, and natural objects. Sufism in Ottoman Damascus sheds new light on the appropriate scholarly approach to historical studies of Sufism in the Ottoman Empire, revising its position in official early modern versions of Ottoman Sunnism. This book further re-approaches early modern Sunni beliefs in wonders and wonder-working, as well as the relationship between religion, thaumaturgy, and magic in Ottoman Sunni Islam, historical themes comparable to other religions and other parts of the world"--