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" Teachers of the Public, Advisors to the Sultan: Preachers and the Rise of a Political Public Sphere in Early Modern Istanbul (1600-1675) "
Sumeyra Aslihan Gurbuzel
Kafadar, Cemal
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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804650
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TL49485
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1933771428; 10632988
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Jaber, Ahlam
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Teachers of the Public, Advisors to the Sultan: Preachers and the Rise of a Political Public Sphere in Early Modern Istanbul (1600-1675)\ Sumeyra Aslihan GurbuzelKafadar, Cemal
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Harvard University
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2016
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Ph.D.
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Middle Eastern Studies Committee
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2016
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309
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Committee members: Blair, Ann M.; Sajdi, Dana
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-0-355-03061-7
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This dissertation focuses on preachers as key actors in the rise of a political public sphere in the early modern Ottoman Empire. Recently, literature on the political importance of corporate bodies and voluntary associations has transformed the understanding of the early modern Ottoman polity. Emphasis has shifted from the valorization of centralized institutions to understanding power as negotiated between the court and other stakeholders. My dissertation joins in this collective effort by way of studying preachers, and through them examining the negotiation of religious authority between the central administration and civic groups. I depict preachers as “mediating” religious power between the elite and the non-elite, and between the written and the oral cultures. I argue that the production of religious doctrine and authority took place at this intermediary space of encounter.
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Middle Eastern history
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Social sciences;Islamic advice literature;Literacy;Ottoman political culture;Ottoman religious history;Popular culture;Vernacularization
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Kafadar, Cemal
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Middle Eastern Studies CommitteeHarvard University
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