Caliphate Redefined: The Mystical Turn in Ottoman Political Thought

Hüseyin Yılmaz’s Caliphate Redefined: The Mystical Turn in Ottoman Political Thought , the product of many years of research, is a seminal work in the history of Ottoman political thought. The book focuses on Ottoman political thought during the reign of Süleyman I (1520-1566) but connects this period more broadly with the rise of mystical conceptions of political authority in the post-Abbasid era. To do this, the author creatively and uniquely...