Ibrahim-i Gulshani and the Khalwati-Gulshani Order : power brokers in Ottoman Egypt /

In Power Brokers in Ottoman Egypt , Side Emre documents the biography of Ibrahim-i Gulshani and the history of the Khalwati-Gulshani order of dervishes (c. 1440-1600). Set mainly in Mamluk-Egypt, and in the century following the region's conquest by the Ottomans, this book analyzes sociopolitic...

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Main Author: Emre, Side.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]

Series: Studies on Sufism 1.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2017, ISBN: 9789004325999.

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Call Number: BP189.7.K44 E47 2017

Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction
  • 1 Gülşenī's Biography in the Hagiographical Imagination (ca. 843-916/1440-1510)
  • 2 Arrival in a Safe Haven: Gülşenī's Early Years in Mamluk Egypt (913 or 916-923/1507 or 1510-17)
  • 3 Gülşenī's Relationships with the Last Two Mamluk Rulers
  • 4 After the Ottoman Conquest: A New Life Begins (923-31/1517-25)
  • 5 The Establishment of the Gülşeniye Lodge Complex (925-31/1519-25)
  • 6 Heresy, Religious Innovation, and Law in Egypt (928-31/1522-25)
  • 7 Who is an Ideal Sufi? A Reconsideration of the "Heretical" Gülşenīs in the Context of the "Ottoman Way"
  • 8 Later Egypt Years (930-31/1524-25) and the Conflict between Gülşenī and Aḥmed Pasha
  • 9 Gülşenī's Final Years and the Gülşeniye Legacy (931-1019/1525-1610)
  • 10 Gülşenī's Heirs and the Founder's Legacy in the Eleventh/Seventeenth Century
  • Bibliography
  • Index.