Virtue, Piety and the Law : A Study of Birgivī Meḥmed Efendī's al-Ṭarīqa al-muḥammadiyya /
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 t...
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Language: English
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Leiden; Boston :
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2021.
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The Ottoman Empire and its Heritage ;
72.
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Call Number: BP188.B563
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations and Frequently Cited Sources
- Note on Transliteration and Transcription
- Introduction
- 1 Please Provide Chapter Title
- 1 Context I: Birgivī's Life
- 2 Context II: Birgivī's oeuvre
- 3 Context III: the Bigger Picture-Early Modern Sunnitization, the Negotiation of Orthodoxy and the Pietist Turn
- 2 The Intellectual Framework
- 1 The Ḥanafī Tradition-Law and Ethics
- 2 Post-Classical fatāwā Handbooks
- 3 Abū al-Layth al-Samarqandī
- 4 Other Ḥanafī Literature
- 5 The Corruption of Times
- 6 Legal Sources beyond the Ḥanafī School
- 7 Birgivī and the Ḥanbalīs
- 8 Birgivī and Ḥadīth
- 9 Sufism
- 10 Science of the Hearts
- 11 Ghazālī
- 12 Emulation of the Prophet
- 13 Birgivī in Contemporary Comparison: Shāhzāde Ḳorḳud
- 14 Birgivī and the Ottoman naṣīḥat-nāme: Muṣṭafā ʿĀlī
- 15 Birgivī and Ottoman Jurisprudence: Ebūʾs-Suʿūd
- 3 The Fundamentals of Piety: an Overview of the Structure and Contents of al-Ṭarīqa al-muḥammadiyya
- 1 Introduction
- 2 A Note on the Textual History of al-Ṭarīqa al-muḥammadiyya
- 3 General Structure of TM and Overview of Contents
- 4 Detailed Summary of Contents-Introduction
- 5 Innovation
- 6 Bidʿa and Sufism
- 7 Moderation
- 8 Part Two-Chapter One-Doctrine
- 9 The Legal Status of the various sciences
- 10 Part Two, Chapter Three: Piety
- 11 The Practical Manifestations of Piety-the Core of TM
- 12 The Vices of the Heart
- 13 Birgivī's Conception of the Soul
- 14 The Vices of the Tongue
- 15 The Vices of the Ear
- 16 The Vices of the Eye
- 17 The Vices of the Hand
- 18 The Vices of the Belly
- 19 The Vices of the Private Parts
- 20 The Vices of the Leg
- 21 Vices Unspecified by Any One Part of the Body
- 22 Part Three of TM-Ritual Purity
- 23 Part Three-Chapter Two-Finance, Land Tenure and Taxation
- 24 What Holds It All Together
- 4 The Slippery Slope of Piety: Birgivī on Sincerity, Sanctimony and How to Determine Right Intention
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Vocabulary and Semantics, Definitions and Classifications
- 3 Riyāʾ as Lesser Shirk
- 4 Other Types of Dissimulation
- 5 Sincerity (ikhlāṣ and iḥsān)
- 6 Truthfulness (ṣidq)
- 7 Various Taxonomies of riyāʾ
- 8 Legal Categorization
- 9 The Why(s) and How(s) of riyāʾ
- 10 The "People of Religion"
- 11 When Things Are Not That Clear-Cut
- 12 Embarrassment
- 13 How to Cure the Evil of riyāʾ
- 14 Display in Order to Guide, but How Can You Be Sure
- 15 Conclusion
- 5 The Economics of Piety: Birgivī on Wastefulness, the Cash waqf and Ottoman Land Tenure and Taxation
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Basic Concepts-the Good and Bad Qualities of Wealth
- 3 Stinginess, Generosity and Waste
- 4 The Causes, Manifestations and Antidotes of Wastefulness
- 5 Charity, Poverty and Begging
- 6 Payment for Religious Services
- 7 The Cash waqf
- 8 Land Tenure and Taxation
- 9 Conclusion
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Reference Works, Library Catalogues, Bibliographies
- Primary Sources
- Secondary Sources
- Index.