Orality in the "Tekke" and the Circulation of "High" and "Low" Cultures of Sufism in Seventeenth-Century İstanbul
The article draws on the Ṣoḥbetnāme (The book of companionship), a collection of Oğlan Şeyh İbrahim Efendi’s (d. 1655) oral discourses as compiled by his disciple Ṣun‘ullāh Gaybī (d. ca. 1676). Raised in a rural community in the Balkans, İbrahim Efendi was trained in the high culture of Sufism in İs...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2022
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| In: |
History of religions
Year: 2022, Volume: 62, Issue: 1, Pages: 49-72 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Ottoman Empire
/ Sufism
/ Orality
/ Poetry
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| IxTheo Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion BJ Islam KBL Near East and North Africa TJ Modern history |
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| Summary: | The article draws on the Ṣoḥbetnāme (The book of companionship), a collection of Oğlan Şeyh İbrahim Efendi’s (d. 1655) oral discourses as compiled by his disciple Ṣun‘ullāh Gaybī (d. ca. 1676). Raised in a rural community in the Balkans, İbrahim Efendi was trained in the high culture of Sufism in İstanbul after he arrived in the city as a young boy. Studying the Ṣoḥbetnāme allows us to better understand İbrahim Efendi's rootedness in the oral thought first molded by his rural beginnings and later defined by his urban associations. The contours of his oral discourse and poetry are discussed as they switch back and forth between the rural and the urban, the heterodox and the orthodox, the vernacular (Turkish) and the literary (Arabic and Persian). |
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| ISSN: | 1545-6935 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: History of religions
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1086/720767 |