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Based on a thorough examination of buildings, inscriptions, archival documents and hagiographies, this book uncovers the political significance of Bektashi shrines in the Ottoman imperial age. It thus provides a fresh and comprehensive account of the formative process of the Bektashi order, which started out as a network of social groups that took issue with Ottoman imperial policies in the late fifteenth century, was endorsed imperially as part of Bayezid II's (r. 1481-1512) soft power policy, and kept under check by imperial authorities as the Ottoman approach to the Safavid conflict hardened during the rest of the sixteenth century. This book demonstrates that it was a combination of two collective activities that established the primary parameters of Bektashi culture from the late fifteenth century onwards. One was the writing of Bektashi hagiographies; they linked hitherto distinct social groups (such as wandering dervishes and warriors) with each other through the lives of historical figures who were their identity markers (such as the saint Hac Bektas and the martyr Seyyid Gazi), while incorporating them into Ottoman history in creative ways. The other one was the architectu

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Author

Zeynep Yürekli

Publisher

Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781317179412

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Islam, Religion