Free Download Nikola Pantic, "Sufism in Ottoman Damascus "
English | ISBN: 1032497971 | 2023 | 250 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1258 KB + 13 MB
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 considerable overlaps between Sufis and ʿulamā' with state appointments in early modern Province of Damascus, arguing for the possibility of sociologically defining a Muslim priestly sodality, a group of religious authorities and wonder-workers responsible for Sunni orthodoxy in the Ottoman Empire. The Sufi-ʿulamā' were integral to Ottoman networks of the holy, networks of grace that comprised of hallowed individuals, places, and natural objects.
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