Transforming Muslim mystical thought in the Ottoman Empire: the case of the Shabaniyye Order in Kastamonu and beyond

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This dissertation represents an attempt to fill a troubling gap in the secondary scholarship on Islamic, and more specifically, Ottoman intellectual history.It examines the role of a prominent Islamic religio-mystical (Sufi) order, known from the fourteenth century onward as the Halveti, in the religious and intellectual life of the Ottoman Empire during the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.Initially famed for their extended periods of ascetic withdrawal into remote areas for the purpose of breaking their carnal desires and engaging in undistracted worship of God, the Halvetis proved to be one of the more durable and influential Sufi brotherhoods in Anatolia, the Balkans, and the Arab lands.Despite its popularity, however, the order has attracted attention in only three isolated cases in the secondary literature.The first of these was during the fifteenth century, when the founding fathers of several branches of the order brought it to both Mamluk Egypt and the nascent O

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