(Re)thinking Ottoman Sunnitization, ca. 1450-1700
Workshop Program
August 25-26, 2017, Central European University, Budapest
August 24, 2017
Participants arriving through the day to the Raoul Wallenberg Guest House
19:00 Informal gathering for drinks and dinner (location TBA)
August 25, 2017
CEU, Nador utca 11, Room # 004
9:00-9:30 Coffee and Breakfast
9:30-9:45 Introductory Remarks
9:45-11:00 Panel 1: Ottoman Reception of Pre-Ottoman Theological Trends
Commentator: Sait Özervarlı (Yıldız Technical University)
Sara Nur Yıldız (Koç University ANAMED)
Creed and Kalam: the Ottoman Reception of Intellectual Trends Emerging from the Ilkhanid and Post-Ilkhanid World
Nabil al-Tikriti (University of Mary Washington)
Every Soul Tastes Death: Şehzade Korkud’s 1508 Da‘wat al-nafs al-ṭāliḥa and the Politics of Piety
11:00-11:15 Coffee break
11:15-12:30 Panel 2: Ottoman Reception of Pre-Ottoman Legal Discourse
Commentator: Guy Burak (Bobst Library, NYU)
Derin Terzioğlu (Boğaziçi University)
Ibn Taymiyya, al-Siyāsa al-shar‘iyya and the Early Modern Ottomans
Yavuz Aykan (Boğaziçi University)
A legal concept in motion: The archeology of the concept of “the spreader of corruption” from the Qarakhanid to the early modern Ottoman jurisprudence
12:45-14:15 Lunch and Coffee
14:30-16:00 Panel 3: Formation of an Ottoman Confessional Canon?
Commentator: Gottfried Hagen (University of Michigan)
Tijana Krstić (Central European University)
State and Religion, "Sunnitization” and “Confessionalism" in Süleyman's Time (based on İlmihal literature)
Ahmet Kaylı (Sabancı University/ Süleymaniye Kütüphanesi)
Dissemination of the Religious Works of Birgivi Mehmed Efendi (d.981/1573) in the Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Centuries: A Study in Reception
Baki Tezcan (University of California, Davis)
The Canon of a Populist Reformation: The Treatises of Birgivi, Rumi, and Kadızade
16:00-16:15 Coffee Break
16:15-17:45 Panel 4: Articulating and Enforcing Confessional Boundaries
Commentator: Tijana Krstić (CEU)
Ayfer Karakaya-Stump (College of William and Mary)
Rethinking Kızılbaş Persecutions through the Lens of Sunni Confessionalization
Devin J. Stewart (Emory University)
Mirza Makhdum: A High-Level Safavid Defector to the Ottomans
Ferenc Csirkés (Sabancı University)
How to Convert a Crimean Khan to Shiism? A Theological Treatise in Turkic from Safavid Iran
19:00 Dinner
August 26, 2017
CEU, Nador utca 15, # 101 (Quantum Room)
9:00—9:30 Breakfast and Coffee
9:30-10:45 Panel 5: Mosques and Tekkes as Sites of Sunnitization
Commentator: Gülrü Necipoğlu (Harvard University)
Grigor Boykov (Center for Regional Studies and Analyses; University of Sofia)
Encouraging Sunnitization in the Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Rumeli: Halveti-turned Dervish Convents in Thrace
Ünver Rüstem (Johns Hopkins University)
The Performance of Piety in the Post-Classical Sultanic Mosque
10:45-11:00 Coffe Break
11:00-12:15 Panel 6: Preaching and Teaching to Worship Like You Mean It
Commentator: Derin Terzioğlu (Boğaziçi University)
Aslıhan Gürbüzel (McGill University)
The Preacher’s Multiple Publics: Intermediation as a Useful Framework for Understanding the Historical Role of Preachers
Guy Burak (Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, New York University)
"Do Not Recite without Understanding the Meaning:" Prayers, Commentaries and Supplicants in the Ottoman Empire
12:30-14:00 Lunch and Coffee
14:00-15:15 Panel 7: Mahalles as Contexts of Religious and Social Disciplining
Commentator: Cemal Kafadar (Harvard University)
Evren H. Sunnetcioğlu (CEU)
Negotiating Sunni Islam in Ottoman Neighborhoods: Imams and Their Communities in Light of 16th- and 17th-Century Ottoman Fetvas
Rossitsa Gradeva (American University of Bulgaria)
The mahalle as a battleground: Muslims versus non-Muslims in defence of ‘their’ territory
15:15-15:30 Coffee Break
15:30-17:00 Panel 8: Negotiating Conceptual Space for the Confessional Other
Commentator: Devin Stewart (Emory University)
Nir Shafir (University of California, San Diego)
Reading Heresy and Heresiographies in the Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Empire
Vefa Erginbaş (Providence College)
Reading Ottoman Sunnism through Islamic history: Approaches towards Yazid b. Muawiyah in the Ottoman historical writing before 1650
Selim Güngörürler (Bogaziçi University/OTTOCONFESSION)
Safavid requests of Ottoman permission for donations to Islamic Holy Sites in Iraq and Hijaz, 1696-1706
17:00-18:00 Conclusions
19:00 Dinner