عنوان

The Sufi as the Axis of the world: Representations of religious authority in the works of Ismail Hakki Bursevi (1653-1725)

Number

TL49210

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انگلیسی

Title Proper

The Sufi as the Axis of the world: Representations of religious authority in the works of Ismail Hakki Bursevi (1653-1725)

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Kameliya Atanasova

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Elias, Jamal J.

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of Pennsylvania

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2016

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

208

Text of Note

Committee members: Cobb, Paul M.; Lowry, Joseph E.

Text of Note

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-369-51158-1

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

Discipline of degree

Religious Studies

Body granting the degree

University of Pennsylvania

Text preceding or following the note

2016

Text of Note

The present study examines the ways in which Ismail Hakki Bursevi (1653-1725) (re)defines and deploys Islamic discursive practices and institutions to assert his religious authority as the most influential Sufi master in the Celveti order after its founder. Through a literary analysis of Bursevi's autobiographical notes and dedicatory treatises (tuhfe) to Ottoman officials, I examine how he uses the institutions of the Sufi master (shaykh ), order (tarīqa), and the Celestial Axis (qutb) to argue for his superior status vis-à-vis other members of the Ottoman religious and learned elite. I speculate argue that the particulars of Hakki's self-representation can be viewed as early indications of institutional anxiety and contested leadership within the Celveti Sufi order, which split into subbranches in the latter part of the eighteenth century.

Religious history; Islamic Studies

Subject Term

Philosophy, religion and theology;Social sciences;Islam on the Balkans;Ottoman intellectual history;Sufism

Islam, Md. Tanvirul

Elias, Jamal J.

Subdivision

Religious Studies

University of Pennsylvania

Call Number

1868839534; 10246714

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[Thesis]

276903

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