If any one thing marks early modern history, it is religious transformation.
Confessional and pietist movements, both European firsts, are
prominent examples of such catalysts for change.1 In large parts of the
Islamic world in the 15th and 16th centuries, it was Sufi piety that carried the
day. The historiographical record reveals strikingly new imaginaires and
novel modes of connectivity to the past. The focus in this paper is on the
manifold ways in which new forms of religiosity redefined the landscape
of politics in the eastern Islamic world. It traces invocations of the past in
Fakhr al-Dīn Kāshifī’s (d. 1532) Rashaḥāt ‘ayn al-ḥayāt 2 (Sprinklings from
the Fountain of Life), a 16th-century collected biography of Naqshbandī
Sufi masters, to argue that the classificatory schema adopted by the author
reveals a template of secularity that marks a significant departure from past
manners of adherence.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa:de:qucosa:36138 |
| Date | 14 November 2019 |
| Creators | Yavari, Neguin |
| Contributors | Kolleg-Forschergruppe 'Multiple Secularities - Beyond the West, Beyond Modernities |
| Source Sets | Hochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/submittedVersion, doc-type:workingPaper, info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper, doc-type:Text |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Relation | urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa2-167259, qucosa:16725 |
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