Author
Item, Furkan Ramazan
Type
Book
Language
ara,eng,tur
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Library
Royal Danish Library
Library Asset ID
ISSN: 2757-6949, EISSN: 2757-6949, DOI: 10.14395/hid.1438069
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cdi_doaj_primary_oai_doaj_org_article_1ec8a76009164f27ad2b41cdabe16b6b
Library Location
EBSCOhost Academic Search Complete
Notes
The main sources of the history of Islamic sects are works such as articles, paragraphs and milel-nihâl. Through these texts, authors conveyed the sects and views that emerged from the Islamic society. Although article-type works precede others in time, most of them have not survived to the present day. The firaq literature that emerged subsequently became a common writing style in the history of sects. In this type of writing, where the intense influence of the hadith of iftiraq is seen, the authors classified the Islamic sects based on the number 73 mentioned in the hadith. Although it is interesting that early sect writers did not take into account the divisions or sects in the Islamic society in the coming centuries, it is more interesting that Ottoman scholars continued their sect classifications without any changes. Even though new sects or views emerged over the centuries, they were not included in the sect classifications; However, sects that were attributed to a single person or whose existence was not even known continued to remain in the classifications. Even though some authors wrote rejections of the groups of their time, they did not include them in their sect classifications. The situation in question is an issue worth questioning, and the article in hand emerged as a result of this questioning, and based on this, the historiography of sects in the Ottoman Empire was examined. The aim of the article, which deals with the historiography of sects in the Ottoman Empire through Firak literature; To reveal the literature of this period by identifying the sect classifications written by Ottoman authors in the 15th and 16th centuries, to make choices as much as possible by bringing up the problem of belonging in the classifications, to compare the classifications with the sect traditions they follow in terms of content, form, method and language, to determine the points where they overlap and differ from these traditions, and to discuss the existence of sect history writing in the Ottoman Empire. to reveal its quality. Although the narrative of the early period of the history of Islamic sects has been largely formed, when it comes to the Ottoman period, this narrative is -usually- interrupted and the situation of the history of the sects in the Republic period is directly passed. The main reason for this is that there are not enough studies on the literature of the history of sects in the Ottoman Empire. The present article aims to fill this gap in the field and to determine the situation of the history of sects in the Ottoman Empire - at least within the framework of the relevant centuries. The first part of the article, which consists of two titles, is devoted to literature analysis. This section, in which the thirteen sect classifications identified are examined, is divided into two: Eastern Hanafi and Ash'ari sect tradition, and eight classifications are discussed in the first one and five classifications in the second one. In this period, where there is no classification other than the two traditions mentioned, authenticity is an important problem. Because the authorship of six of the thirteen classifications in question is doubtful. It is noteworthy that five of the questionable classifications are in the Eastern Hanafi tradition. One of the notable points in this section is the unearthing of two works by Lütfi Pasha in which he classified the sects. Although the studies on Lütfi Pasha focus on his Fıraḳ-ı ḍâlle, it has been determined that he classified the sects in two works he wrote in Turkish, named Ḥayât-ı Ebedî, and in Arabic, called Zübdetü'l-mesâil, and in the treatise titled Fıraḳ-ı ḍâlle, Ḥayât-ı It has been stated that it is an independent copy of the first chapter in Ebedî. Zübdetü'l-mesâil presented one of the most original classifications of this period with its content and structure. In addition, based on the available findings, it can be said that Turkish firak and milel-nihâl writing began in this period. Again, in the first chapter, it was seen that the most frequently followed name in the Eastern Hanafi firaq tradition in the Ottoman Empire was Ebû Mutî', and in the Ash'arite firaq tradition, Amidi was. In the second heading, the existence of sectarian history writing in the Ottoman Empire is discussed, taking into account the types of copyrights that include sect classifications. Accordingly, as far as it has been determined, no independent chapter or milel-nihal work was written by Ottoman authors in the 15th and 16th centuries. However, the classifications at hand are not texts that talk about the groups of the authors in their own period. For this reason, in the history of sects in the Ottoman Empire - although it is accepted that there was a type of writing - it seems difficult to talk about a strong writing style similar to the one in the early period.
Görüntüle
Hitit İlahiyat Dergisi, 2024-06, Vol.23 (1), p.8-46
