2. CAN WE SPEAK OF ‘CONFESSIONALIZATION’ BEYOND THE REFORMATION? OTTOMAN COMMUNITIES, POLITICS OF PIETY, AND EMPIRE-BUILDING IN AN EARLY MODERN EURASIAN PERSPECTIVE

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. TABLE OF CONTENTS v
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
4. NOTES ON TRANSLITERATION xi
5. LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS xiii
6. 1. INTRODUCTION 1
7. PART I: ENTANGLED CONFESSIONALIZATIONS IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE: A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
8. 2. CAN WE SPEAK OF ‘CONFESSIONALIZATION’ BEYOND THE REFORMATION? OTTOMAN COMMUNITIES, POLITICS OF PIETY, AND EMPIRE-BUILDING IN AN EARLY MODERN EURASIAN PERSPECTIVE 25
9. PART II: VISIONS AND REALITIES OF COMMUNAL AUTHORITY
10. 3. TWO VISIONS OF RABBINIC AUTHORITY AND THEIR OTTOMAN CONTEXT: THE LEGAL WORLDVIEWS OF JOSEPH CARO (D. 1575) AND JOSEPH SAMBARI (D. C. 1703) 117
11. 4. GRIGOR DARANAŁCʿI: AN ARMENIAN CHRONICLER OF EARLY MODERN MASS MOBILITY 139
12. 5. CONFESSION-BUILDING AND AUTHORITY: THE GREAT CHURCH AND THE OTTOMAN STATE IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY 159
13. 6. WHOSE REALM, HIS BISHOP: ORTHODOX PATRIARCH’S FLOCK BEYOND THE BORDERS OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY 215
14. 7. SHEIKH ÜL-ISLAM FEYZULLAH EFENDI AND THE ARMENIAN PATRIARCH AWETIKʿ: A CASE OF ENTANGLED CONFESSIONAL DISCIPLINING? 233
15. PART III: VARIETIES OF TEXTUAL COMMUNITIES IN THE OTTOMAN ARENA OF CONFESSIONAL POLARIZATION
16. 8. KABBALISTIC FRATERNITIES OF OTTOMAN GALILEE AND THEIR CENTRAL EUROPEAN MEMBERS, FUNDERS, AND SUCCESSORS 255
17. 9. THE COMMANDMENT (BUYRUK): AN INTRODUCTION TO THE SACRED TEXTS OF THE KIZILBASH-ALEVI COMMUNITY 285
18. 10. THE ABDALS OF RUM AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF COMPETING MUSLIM CONFESSIONAL IDENTITIES IN THE EARLY MODERN EASTERN BALKANS 313
19. 11. ORTHODOX MARTYRDOM AND CONFESSIONALIZATION IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE, LATE FIFTEENTH–MID-SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES 335
20. 12. CATHOLIC CONFESSIONAL LITERATURE IN THE CHRISTIAN EAST? A VIEW FROM ROME, DIYARBAKIR, AND MOUNT LEBANON, CA. 1674 383
21. PART IV: POLEMICAL ENCOUNTERS IN AN INTER-IMPERIAL PERSPECTIVE
22. 13. MASJED-E JAMEʿ-YE ʿABBASI: A TWELVER SHI‘ITE CONGREGATIONAL MOSQUE IN THE CONTEXT OF THE DEBATE ON THE FRIDAY PRAYER IN THE SAFAVID WORLD 401
23. 14. ON THE MARGINS OF EMPIRE: CONFESSIONALIZATION AND THE EAST SYRIAN SCHISM OF 15521 429
24. 15. FROM DOCTRINAL PERSUASION TO ECONOMIC THREATS: PAOLO PIROMALLI’S MISSIONARY WORK AMONG THE ARMENIANS AND HIS CONVERSION STRATEGIES1 451
25. 16. INTRA-ARMENIAN POLEMICS AND CONFESSION-BUILDING IN OTTOMAN CONSTANTINOPLE: THE CASE OF GĒORG MXLAYIM ŌŁLI (1681/85–1758) 489
26. 17. ORTHODOX CONFESSION-BUILDING AND THE GREEK CHURCH BETWEEN PROTESTANTISM AND CATHOLICISM: THE MISSION OF MARQUIS NOINTEL TO THE LEVANT (1670–1673) 521
27. PART V: CONTEXTUAL LIMITS OF CONFESSIONAL AMBIGUITIES
28. 18. CONFESSIONAL AMBIGUITY IN THE AGE OF CONFESSION-BUILDING: PHILO-ALIDISM, SUFISM AND SUNNI ISLAM IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE, 1400–1700 563
29. 19. GRAND VIZIER KOCA SINAN PASHA AND THE OTTOMAN NON-MUSLIMS 625
30. 20. ON THE LEGAL STATUS OF YEZIDIS: LAW, GEOGRAPHY AND CONFESSION-BUILDING IN EARLY MODERN KURDISTAN (SIXTEENTHEIGHTEENTH CENTURIES) 673
31. 21. BROKERING TRIDENTINE MARRIAGE REFORMS AND LEGAL PLURALISM IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY NORTHERN OTTOMAN RUMELI 701
32. 22. SHI‘ITE-IRANIAN PILGRIMS AND SAFAVID AGENTS IN HOLY SITES UNDER OTTOMAN RULE, 1690–1710 725
33. Afterword: Entangled Confessionalizations—A European Perspective 745
34. Index 763