Guy Burak
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 308403 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Guy Burak |
| NOMBRES | Guy |
| APELLIDO | Burak |
| FIRMA | BURAK G |
| AFILIACIONES | New York University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 36 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2013 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Architecture and Material Politics in the Fifteenth-Century Ottoman Empire By Patricia Blessing
Melis Taner, Caught in a Whirlwind
Reviewed by: Caught in a Whirlwind: A Cultural History of Ottoman Baghdad as Reflected in Its Illustrated Manuscripts by Melis Taner Guy Burak Melis Taner, Caught in a Whirlwind: A Cultural History of Ottoman Baghdad as Reflected in Its Illustrated Manuscripts. Leiden: Brill, 2019. 210 pp. Hardback, $154. ISBN: 978-90-04-41269-9. Remarkably little attention has been paid to the history of the Ottoman frontier province of Baghdad from its conquest…
Monument to Medieval Syrian Book Culture
A Monument to Medieval Syrian Book Culture: The Library of Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī. By Konrad Hirschler. Edinburgh: EdinBurgh University Press, 2019. Pp. x + 624, illus. $130
Toward Early Modern Archivality
This essay addresses the revival of culturalist assumptions in historical archival studies and suggests an alternative framework. Rather than provenance, it privileges textual circulation; rather than civilizational divides between supposedly distinct 'European' and 'Islamic' archivalities, it highlights mutability and commensurability as defining elements of a broadly shared, if inherently dynamic, internally complex, and transactionally defined…
Guest Editors’ Preface
Few texts are more ubiquitous in manuscript collections and libraries throughout the Sunni world than Muammad b. Sulaymn al-Jazl's (d
Alphabets and “Calligraphy” in the Section on Prayers, Special Characteristics of the Quran and Magic Squares in the Inventory of Sultan Bayezid II’s Palace Library
This essay is an attempt to read the section on invocations, prayers, the unique qualities of the Quran and magic squares of the palace library of the Ottoman Sultan Bayezid II (d. 918/1512) along with several works by ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Bisṭāmī (d. c. 858/1454 or 1455) to cast light on underexamined perceptions of calligraphic styles and alphabets/scripts employed to inscribe talismanic objects and manuscripts. Methodologically, the intention is …
Breaching the Bronze Wall
Şeyhulislâm Feyzullah Efendi, the Ḥanafī Mufti of Jerusalem and the Rise of the Provincial Fatāwā Collections in the Eighteenth Century
The article examines the rise of standardized collections of fatāwā issued by officially appointed provincial Hanafi muftis across the Ottoman Empire in the long eighteenth century. The article focuses on the earliest compilation, that of the Jerusalemite Ḥanafī mufti, ʿAbd al-Raḥīm b. Abī al-Luṭf. This compilation was commissioned by the famous chief imperial mufti Feyzullah Efendi. The article then traces the proliferation of the standardized f…
The Historicization of Sharia and Historical Generalization
This review essay seeks to offer an analytic/historiographical framework that would pay closer attention to the imperial legal landscape and the Hanafi jurisprudential tradition. This framework, I believe, adds to the continuum that Beshara B. Doumani proposes, which is based on the political economy of different localities across the Ottoman Eastern Mediterranean and, perhaps, well beyond. Taken together, both aspects of the framework reveal the…
In Compliance with the Old Register”
The article examines multiple approaches to archived documents and documentary depositories in the Ottoman Empire. By exploring a range of views that reflect a sense of archival consciousness among different groups and individuals throughout the Ottoman lands, the essay seeks to better contextualize the Ottoman quite successful attempts to regulate the imperial paper trail and to promote a specific view of the archive. More generally, by tracing …
Between Istanbul and Gujarat
In 1543, a quarter century after the Ottoman conquest of the Holy Cities, the Meccan jurist, hadith scholar, and chronicler Jar Allah Muhammad Ibn Fahd (d. 1547) completed a short work devoted to the construction projects undertaken in the city by the Ottoman sultans Selim I (r. 1512–20) and his son Süleyman (r. 1520–66). The work is highly unusual from the perspective of the Arabic historiographical tradition and constitutes the first comprehens…
Canonical Texts and Scholarly Practices
In this collection of richly documented case studies, experts in many textual traditions examine the ways in which important texts were preserved, explicated, corrected, and used for a variety of purposes. The authors describe the multiple ways in which scholars in different cultures have addressed some of the same tasks, revealing both radical differences and striking similarities in textual practices across space, time and linguistic borders. T…
Translating the Qurʾan in an Age of Nationalism
Brett Wilson’s Translating the Qur’an in an Age of Nationalism offers the first comprehensive political and cultural history of the translation of the Qurʾān into Turkish in the late Ottoman and early republican Turkey. The geographical and chronological scopes of Wilson’s excellent book, however, is much broader, as he traces debates about the translation and translatability of the Qurʾān into Turkish and other languages (including English) from…
Evidentiary truth claims, imperial registers, and the Ottoman archive
The article reconstructs a debate between Hanafi jurists who operated throughout Ottoman Greater Syria (and beyond) from the seventeenth to the early nineteenth centuries concerning the evidentiary status of the Ottoman imperial registers (defters). At the centre of the jurists' debate is the permissibility of using imperial registers as independent, uncorroborated evidence. It was a debate about who had the right to regulate and determine what c…
The Second Formation of Islamic Law
The Second Formation of Islamic Law is the first book to deal with the rise of an official school of law in the post-Mongol period. The author explores how the Ottoman dynasty shaped the structure and doctrine of a particular branch within the Hanafi school of law. In addition, the book examines the opposition of various jurists, mostly from the empire's Arab provinces, to this development. By looking at the emergence of the concept of an officia…
Between the K n n of Q ytb y and Ottoman Yasaq
The article traces the Ottoman introduction of ḳānūn to the Arabic-speaking Middle East in the first decades following the Ottoman conquest of the Arab lands in 1516–17. In particular, it looks at two supplementary discourses that accompanied the conquest: (1) the Ottoman attempt to invent a Mamluk ḳānūn, despite the fact that the concept was alien to the Mamluk political-legal vocabulary, and (2) the denunciation of the Ottoman ḳānūn as yasa by …
Faith, law and empire in the Ottoman ‘age of confessionalization’ (fifteenth–seventeenth centuries)
The article explores the understudied theological-legal concept and practice of renewal of faith, an Ottoman innovation dating from the fifteenth century. It situates this practice within the context of the Ottoman and, more broadly, Mediterranean 'age of confessionalization', an age in which rulers and dynasts across the Mediterranean infused 'religious rhetoric into the processes of state and social formation'. This study focuses on the legal a…
Dynasty, Law, and the Imperial Provincial Madrasa
This study looks at the history of two madrasas in Jerusalem, al-Madrasa al-ʿUthmaniyya and al-Madrasa al-Fanariyya from the 15th to the 18th centuries, in order to examine an understudied Ottoman institution: the imperial provincial madrasa. The imperial madrasas were assigned to the state-appointed Hanafi muftis of different localities across the empire. This essay argues that these learning institutions helped to consolidate the connection bet…
The Second Formation of Islamic Law
This article proposes a comparative analytical framework to study changes in Islamic law during the post-Mongol period, particularly the rise of the official school of law (or statemadhhab). Taking as my case study the Ottoman adoption of a particular branch within the Sunni Hanafi school of law, I suggest that this adoption marks a new chapter in Islamic legal history. In earlier periods, while rulers appointed judges and thus regulated the adju…
The Second Formation of Islamic Law
This article proposes a comparative analytical framework to study changes in Islamic law during the post-Mongol period, particularly the rise of the official school of law (or statemadhhab). Taking as my case study the Ottoman adoption of a particular branch within the Sunni Hanafi school of law, I suggest that this adoption marks a new chapter in Islamic legal history. In earlier periods, while rulers appointed judges and thus regulated the adju…
Toward Early Modern Archivality
This essay addresses the revival of culturalist assumptions in historical archival studies and suggests an alternative framework. Rather than provenance, it privileges textual circulation; rather than civilizational divides between supposedly distinct 'European' and 'Islamic' archivalities, it highlights mutability and commensurability as defining elements of a broadly shared, if inherently dynamic, internally complex, and transactionally defined…
Between Istanbul and Gujarat
In 1543, a quarter century after the Ottoman conquest of the Holy Cities, the Meccan jurist, hadith scholar, and chronicler Jar Allah Muhammad Ibn Fahd (d. 1547) completed a short work devoted to the construction projects undertaken in the city by the Ottoman sultans Selim I (r. 1512–20) and his son Süleyman (r. 1520–66). The work is highly unusual from the perspective of the Arabic historiographical tradition and constitutes the first comprehens…
Evidentiary truth claims, imperial registers, and the Ottoman archive
The article reconstructs a debate between Hanafi jurists who operated throughout Ottoman Greater Syria (and beyond) from the seventeenth to the early nineteenth centuries concerning the evidentiary status of the Ottoman imperial registers (defters). At the centre of the jurists' debate is the permissibility of using imperial registers as independent, uncorroborated evidence. It was a debate about who had the right to regulate and determine what c…
In Compliance with the Old Register”
The article examines multiple approaches to archived documents and documentary depositories in the Ottoman Empire. By exploring a range of views that reflect a sense of archival consciousness among different groups and individuals throughout the Ottoman lands, the essay seeks to better contextualize the Ottoman quite successful attempts to regulate the imperial paper trail and to promote a specific view of the archive. More generally, by tracing …
Faith, law and empire in the Ottoman ‘age of confessionalization’ (fifteenth–seventeenth centuries)
The article explores the understudied theological-legal concept and practice of renewal of faith, an Ottoman innovation dating from the fifteenth century. It situates this practice within the context of the Ottoman and, more broadly, Mediterranean 'age of confessionalization', an age in which rulers and dynasts across the Mediterranean infused 'religious rhetoric into the processes of state and social formation'. This study focuses on the legal a…
Dynasty, Law, and the Imperial Provincial Madrasa
This study looks at the history of two madrasas in Jerusalem, al-Madrasa al-ʿUthmaniyya and al-Madrasa al-Fanariyya from the 15th to the 18th centuries, in order to examine an understudied Ottoman institution: the imperial provincial madrasa. The imperial madrasas were assigned to the state-appointed Hanafi muftis of different localities across the empire. This essay argues that these learning institutions helped to consolidate the connection bet…
Şeyhulislâm Feyzullah Efendi, the Ḥanafī Mufti of Jerusalem and the Rise of the Provincial Fatāwā Collections in the Eighteenth Century
The article examines the rise of standardized collections of fatāwā issued by officially appointed provincial Hanafi muftis across the Ottoman Empire in the long eighteenth century. The article focuses on the earliest compilation, that of the Jerusalemite Ḥanafī mufti, ʿAbd al-Raḥīm b. Abī al-Luṭf. This compilation was commissioned by the famous chief imperial mufti Feyzullah Efendi. The article then traces the proliferation of the standardized f…
Between the K n n of Q ytb y and Ottoman Yasaq
The article traces the Ottoman introduction of ḳānūn to the Arabic-speaking Middle East in the first decades following the Ottoman conquest of the Arab lands in 1516–17. In particular, it looks at two supplementary discourses that accompanied the conquest: (1) the Ottoman attempt to invent a Mamluk ḳānūn, despite the fact that the concept was alien to the Mamluk political-legal vocabulary, and (2) the denunciation of the Ottoman ḳānūn as yasa by …
Faith, law and empire in the Ottoman ‘age of confessionalization’ (fifteenth–seventeenth centuries)
The article explores the understudied theological-legal concept and practice of renewal of faith, an Ottoman innovation dating from the fifteenth century. It situates this practice within the context of the Ottoman and, more broadly, Mediterranean 'age of confessionalization', an age in which rulers and dynasts across the Mediterranean infused 'religious rhetoric into the processes of state and social formation'. This study focuses on the legal a…
Dynasty, Law, and the Imperial Provincial Madrasa
This study looks at the history of two madrasas in Jerusalem, al-Madrasa al-ʿUthmaniyya and al-Madrasa al-Fanariyya from the 15th to the 18th centuries, in order to examine an understudied Ottoman institution: the imperial provincial madrasa. The imperial madrasas were assigned to the state-appointed Hanafi muftis of different localities across the empire. This essay argues that these learning institutions helped to consolidate the connection bet…
The Second Formation of Islamic Law
This article proposes a comparative analytical framework to study changes in Islamic law during the post-Mongol period, particularly the rise of the official school of law (or statemadhhab). Taking as my case study the Ottoman adoption of a particular branch within the Sunni Hanafi school of law, I suggest that this adoption marks a new chapter in Islamic legal history. In earlier periods, while rulers appointed judges and thus regulated the adju…
Between the K n n of Q ytb y and Ottoman Yasaq
The article traces the Ottoman introduction of ḳānūn to the Arabic-speaking Middle East in the first decades following the Ottoman conquest of the Arab lands in 1516–17. In particular, it looks at two supplementary discourses that accompanied the conquest: (1) the Ottoman attempt to invent a Mamluk ḳānūn, despite the fact that the concept was alien to the Mamluk political-legal vocabulary, and (2) the denunciation of the Ottoman ḳānūn as yasa by …
The Second Formation of Islamic Law
The Second Formation of Islamic Law is the first book to deal with the rise of an official school of law in the post-Mongol period. The author explores how the Ottoman dynasty shaped the structure and doctrine of a particular branch within the Hanafi school of law. In addition, the book examines the opposition of various jurists, mostly from the empire's Arab provinces, to this development. By looking at the emergence of the concept of an officia…
Canonical Texts and Scholarly Practices
In this collection of richly documented case studies, experts in many textual traditions examine the ways in which important texts were preserved, explicated, corrected, and used for a variety of purposes. The authors describe the multiple ways in which scholars in different cultures have addressed some of the same tasks, revealing both radical differences and striking similarities in textual practices across space, time and linguistic borders. T…
Translating the Qurʾan in an Age of Nationalism
Brett Wilson’s Translating the Qur’an in an Age of Nationalism offers the first comprehensive political and cultural history of the translation of the Qurʾān into Turkish in the late Ottoman and early republican Turkey. The geographical and chronological scopes of Wilson’s excellent book, however, is much broader, as he traces debates about the translation and translatability of the Qurʾān into Turkish and other languages (including English) from…
Evidentiary truth claims, imperial registers, and the Ottoman archive
The article reconstructs a debate between Hanafi jurists who operated throughout Ottoman Greater Syria (and beyond) from the seventeenth to the early nineteenth centuries concerning the evidentiary status of the Ottoman imperial registers (defters). At the centre of the jurists' debate is the permissibility of using imperial registers as independent, uncorroborated evidence. It was a debate about who had the right to regulate and determine what c…
Between Istanbul and Gujarat
In 1543, a quarter century after the Ottoman conquest of the Holy Cities, the Meccan jurist, hadith scholar, and chronicler Jar Allah Muhammad Ibn Fahd (d. 1547) completed a short work devoted to the construction projects undertaken in the city by the Ottoman sultans Selim I (r. 1512–20) and his son Süleyman (r. 1520–66). The work is highly unusual from the perspective of the Arabic historiographical tradition and constitutes the first comprehens…
The Historicization of Sharia and Historical Generalization
This review essay seeks to offer an analytic/historiographical framework that would pay closer attention to the imperial legal landscape and the Hanafi jurisprudential tradition. This framework, I believe, adds to the continuum that Beshara B. Doumani proposes, which is based on the political economy of different localities across the Ottoman Eastern Mediterranean and, perhaps, well beyond. Taken together, both aspects of the framework reveal the…
In Compliance with the Old Register”
The article examines multiple approaches to archived documents and documentary depositories in the Ottoman Empire. By exploring a range of views that reflect a sense of archival consciousness among different groups and individuals throughout the Ottoman lands, the essay seeks to better contextualize the Ottoman quite successful attempts to regulate the imperial paper trail and to promote a specific view of the archive. More generally, by tracing …
Guest Editors’ Preface
Few texts are more ubiquitous in manuscript collections and libraries throughout the Sunni world than Muammad b. Sulaymn al-Jazl's (d
Alphabets and “Calligraphy” in the Section on Prayers, Special Characteristics of the Quran and Magic Squares in the Inventory of Sultan Bayezid II’s Palace Library
This essay is an attempt to read the section on invocations, prayers, the unique qualities of the Quran and magic squares of the palace library of the Ottoman Sultan Bayezid II (d. 918/1512) along with several works by ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Bisṭāmī (d. c. 858/1454 or 1455) to cast light on underexamined perceptions of calligraphic styles and alphabets/scripts employed to inscribe talismanic objects and manuscripts. Methodologically, the intention is …
Breaching the Bronze Wall
Şeyhulislâm Feyzullah Efendi, the Ḥanafī Mufti of Jerusalem and the Rise of the Provincial Fatāwā Collections in the Eighteenth Century
The article examines the rise of standardized collections of fatāwā issued by officially appointed provincial Hanafi muftis across the Ottoman Empire in the long eighteenth century. The article focuses on the earliest compilation, that of the Jerusalemite Ḥanafī mufti, ʿAbd al-Raḥīm b. Abī al-Luṭf. This compilation was commissioned by the famous chief imperial mufti Feyzullah Efendi. The article then traces the proliferation of the standardized f…
Melis Taner, Caught in a Whirlwind
Reviewed by: Caught in a Whirlwind: A Cultural History of Ottoman Baghdad as Reflected in Its Illustrated Manuscripts by Melis Taner Guy Burak Melis Taner, Caught in a Whirlwind: A Cultural History of Ottoman Baghdad as Reflected in Its Illustrated Manuscripts. Leiden: Brill, 2019. 210 pp. Hardback, $154. ISBN: 978-90-04-41269-9. Remarkably little attention has been paid to the history of the Ottoman frontier province of Baghdad from its conquest…
Monument to Medieval Syrian Book Culture
A Monument to Medieval Syrian Book Culture: The Library of Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī. By Konrad Hirschler. Edinburgh: EdinBurgh University Press, 2019. Pp. x + 624, illus. $130
Toward Early Modern Archivality
This essay addresses the revival of culturalist assumptions in historical archival studies and suggests an alternative framework. Rather than provenance, it privileges textual circulation; rather than civilizational divides between supposedly distinct 'European' and 'Islamic' archivalities, it highlights mutability and commensurability as defining elements of a broadly shared, if inherently dynamic, internally complex, and transactionally defined…
Architecture and Material Politics in the Fifteenth-Century Ottoman Empire By Patricia Blessing
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