TY - GEN TY - GEN T1 - Virtue, Piety, and the Law : A Study of Birgivī Meḥmed Efendī's al-Ṭarīqah al-Muḥammadīyah T2 - The Ottoman Empire and its heritage A1 - Ivanyi, Katharina A., kirjoittaja LA - eng PP - Leiden PB - Brill YR - 2020 UL - https://kansalliskirjasto.finna.fi/Record/fikka.5462508 AB - "In Virtue, Piety and the Law Katharina Ivanyi examines Birgivī Meḥmed Efendī's (d. 981/1573) al-Ṭarīqa al-muḥammadiyya, a major work of pietist exhortation and advice, composed by the sixteenth-century Ottoman jurist, Ḥadīth scholar and grammarian, who would articulate a style of religiosity that had considerable reformist appeal into modern times. Linking the cultivation of individual virtue to questions of wider political, social and economic concern, Birgivīplayed a significant role in the negotiation and articulation of early modern Ottoman Ḥanafīpiety. Birgivī's deep mistrust of the passions of the human soul led him to prescribe a regime of self-surveillance and control that was only matched in rigor by his likewise exacting interpretation of the law in matters of everyday life, as much as in state practices, such as the cash waqf, Ottoman land tenure and taxation"-- SN - 978-90-04-41986-5 sidottu KW - Birgivî Mehmet Efendi, : approximately 1522-1573. : Ṭarīqah al-Muḥammadīyah. KW - Muslims : Conduct of life. KW - Islamic ethics. KW - Virtue. KW - Piety. KW - Waqf. KW - Land tenure : Law and legislation : Turkey : History. KW - Taxation : Law and legislation : Turkey : History. KW - Turkey : History : Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918. ER -