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The Perfect Human (al-insān al-kāmil)

open access: yesSt Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology
The Islamic mystical doctrine of the perfect human (al-insān al-kāmil) – whose bodily existence is deemed to mark the culmination of the cosmic process of divine self-disclosure – has had a lasting impact on Sufi thought and practice from the late ...
Richard Todd
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DinaLe Gall, A Culture of Sufism: Naqshbandis in the Ottoman World, 1450-1700

open access: yesJama'a: an Interdisciplinary Journal of Middle East Studies, 2009
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Sufism in Ottoman Damascus

2023
Sufism in Ottoman Damascus analyzes thaumaturgical beliefs and practices prevalent among Muslims in eighteenth-century Ottoman Syria. The study focuses on historical beliefs in baraka, which religious authorities often interpreted as Allah’s grace, and the alleged Sufi-ulamaic role in distributing it to Ottoman subjects.This book highlights ...
Nikola Pantic
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Sufism and Governmentality in the Late Ottoman Empire

Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 2009
This article examines transformations in Sufi orders and in the status of Sufis in the late Ottoman Empire and argues that their increasing bureaucratization was an extension of increased rationalization of Ottoman administration and the normalization of the objects of governance into the Islamic sphere.
Brian Silverstein
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Could Sufism Have Been a Means of Spreading Ibn Taymiyya's Thought in the Ottoman Empire?

Muslim World, The, 2022
AbstractCurrent studies on Ibn Taymiyya's influence on the intellectual life of the Ottoman Empire focus on the mid‐sixteenth and the early seventeenth centuries. In this paper, I argue that Ibn Taymiyya's influence on some aspects of Ottoman intellectual life can be traced, indirectly, to the beginning of the fifteenth century.
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Egyptian and Syrian Sufis Viewing Ottoman Turkish Sufism: Similarities, Differences, and Interactions

2014
In August 1516 the Ottoman Sultan Selim I defeated the Mamluks on the plain of Marj Dabiq, near Aleppo, and quickly conquered Syria. In January of the next year, the Ottomans conquered Egypt, thus completing the destruction of the Mamluk Sultanate, and annexed Egypt and Syria as provinces.
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