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" The Sufi as the Axis of the world: Representations of religious authority in the works of Ismail Hakki Bursevi (1653-1725) "
Kameliya Atanasova
Elias, Jamal J.
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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804380
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TL49210
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1868839534; 10246714
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Islam, Md. Tanvirul
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The Sufi as the Axis of the world: Representations of religious authority in the works of Ismail Hakki Bursevi (1653-1725)\ Kameliya AtanasovaElias, Jamal J.
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University of Pennsylvania
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2016
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Ph.D.
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Religious Studies
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2016
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208
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Committee members: Cobb, Paul M.; Lowry, Joseph E.
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-369-51158-1
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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 (<i>tuhfe</i>) to Ottoman officials, I examine how he uses the institutions of the Sufi master (<i>shaykh </i>), order (<i>tarīqa</i>), and the Celestial Axis (<i>qutb</i>) 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.
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Religious history; Islamic Studies
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Philosophy, religion and theology;Social sciences;Islam on the Balkans;Ottoman intellectual history;Sufism
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Elias, Jamal J.
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Religious StudiesUniversity of Pennsylvania
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