9. Some Reflections on the Fluidity of Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy in an Ottoman Sunni Context

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Contributors vii
4. Acknowledgements xi
5. Note on Transliteration xiii
6. 1. Introduction 1
7. 2. The Rise of the ‘Religion and State’ Order: Re-confessionalisation of State and Society in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire 12
8. 3. One Word, Many Implications: The Term ‘Kızılbaş’ in the Early Modern Ottoman Context 47
9. 4. Reappraising Ottoman Religiosity in the Last Decades of the Sixteenth Century: Mustafa Darir’s Siret and its Alid Content 71
10. 5. Confessionalisation or a Quest for Order? A Comparative Look at Religion and State in the Seventeenth-century Ottoman, Russian and Habsburg Empires 90
11. 6. From the Hamzaviyye to the Melāmiyye: Transformation of an Order in Seventeenth-century Istanbul 121
12. 7. Fabricating the Great Mass: Heresy and Legitimate Plurality in Harputlu İshak Efendi’s Polemics against the Bektaşi Order 146
13. 8. The Ottoman Policy of ‘Correction of Belief(s)’ 166
14. 9. Some Reflections on the Fluidity of Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy in an Ottoman Sunni Context 193
15. Bibliography 211
16. Index 247