Virtue, piety and the law : a study of Birgivī Meḥmed Efendī's al-Ṭarīqa al-Muḥammadīyya /
by Katharina A. Ivanyi.
- vii, 266 pages ; 25 cm.
- The Ottoman Empire and its heritage, 72 1380-6076 ; .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The intellectual framework -- The fundamentals of piety : an overview of the structure and contents of al-Ṭarīqah al-Muḥammadīyah -- The slippery slope of piety : Birgivī on sincerity, sanctimony, and how to determine right intention -- The economics of piety : Birgivī on wastefulness, the cash waqf and Ottoman land tenure and taxation.
"In Virtue, Piety and the Law Katharina Ivanyi examines Birgivī Meḥmed Efendī's (d. 981/1573) al-Ṭarīqa al-muḥammadiyya, a major work of pietist exhortation and advice, composed by the sixteenth-century Ottoman jurist, Ḥadīth scholar and grammarian, who would articulate a style of religiosity that had considerable reformist appeal into modern times. Linking the cultivation of individual virtue to questions of wider political, social and economic concern, Birgivīplayed a significant role in the negotiation and articulation of early modern Ottoman Ḥanafīpiety. Birgivī's deep mistrust of the passions of the human soul led him to prescribe a regime of self-surveillance and control that was only matched in rigor by his likewise exacting interpretation of the law in matters of everyday life, as much as in state practices, such as the cash waqf, Ottoman land tenure and taxation"--
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Birgivî Mehmet Efendi, approximately 1522-1573. Ṭarīqah al-Muḥammadīyah.
Muslims--Conduct of life. Islamic ethics. Virtue. Piety. Waqf. Land tenure--Law and legislation--History.--Turkey Taxation--Law and legislation--History.--Turkey