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"Offers a fascinating insight into the intellectual history of the pre-modern Ottoman world. . . . Taming the Messiah will certainly not tame your intellectual curiosity for Ottoman intellectual history; it is likely to whet your appetite for more 17th century treats." * Middle East Monitor *

Table of Contents
Contents

Acknowledgments
Conventions Used

Introduction


1. Politics as Spectacle: Changing Norms of Political Participation in the Seventeenth Century

2. Ottoman Anti-Puritanism: Communal Privacy and Limits to Public Authority

3. Sufi Sovereignties in the Ottoman World: Sufi Orders as Dynasties

4. A New Volume for the Old Mesnevī: Reviving the Dual Caliphate in the Age of Decentralization

5. Language and Historical Consciousness: Theories of Progress in Ottoman Early Modernity

6. Of Coffeehouse Saints: Contesting Surveillance in the Early Modern City

Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Taming the Messiah

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      Publisher University of California Press
      Published 10 January 2023
      ISBN-13 9780520388215
      978-0520388215
      ISBN-10 0520388216
      Also in:
      Islam

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review
      "Offers a fascinating insight into the intellectual history of the pre-modern Ottoman world. . . . Taming the Messiah will certainly not tame your intellectual curiosity for Ottoman intellectual history; it is likely to whet your appetite for more 17th century treats." * Middle East Monitor *

      Table of Contents
      Contents

      Acknowledgments
      Conventions Used

      Introduction


      1. Politics as Spectacle: Changing Norms of Political Participation in the Seventeenth Century

      2. Ottoman Anti-Puritanism: Communal Privacy and Limits to Public Authority

      3. Sufi Sovereignties in the Ottoman World: Sufi Orders as Dynasties

      4. A New Volume for the Old Mesnevī: Reviving the Dual Caliphate in the Age of Decentralization

      5. Language and Historical Consciousness: Theories of Progress in Ottoman Early Modernity

      6. Of Coffeehouse Saints: Contesting Surveillance in the Early Modern City

      Epilogue
      Notes
      Bibliography
      Index

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