| Virtue, Piety and the Law: A Study of Birgivī Meḥmed Efendī's Al-Ṭarīqa Al-Muḥammadiyya Contributor(s): Ivanyi, Katharina Anna (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004419861 ISBN-13: 9789004419865 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $131.10 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Language: Turkish; Ottoman Published: October 2020 |
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| BISAC Categories: - History | Asia - General - History | Middle East - General - History | Europe - Renaissance |
| Physical Information: 278 pages |
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| Publisher Description: In Virtue, Piety and the Law Katharina Ivanyi examines Birgivī Meḥmed Efendī's (d. 981/1573) al-Ṭarīqa al-muḥammadiyya, a major work of pietist exhortation and advice, composed by the sixteenth-century Ottoman jurist, Ḥadīth scholar and grammarian, who would articulate a style of religiosity that had considerable reformist appeal into modern times. Linking the cultivation of individual virtue to questions of wider political, social and economic concern, Birgivī played a significant role in the negotiation and articulation of early modern Ottoman Ḥanafī piety. Birgivī's deep mistrust of the passions of the human soul led him to prescribe a regime of self-surveillance and control that was only matched in rigor by his likewise exacting interpretation of the law in matters of everyday life, as much as in state practices, such as the cash waqf, Ottoman land tenure and taxation. |