Humanist mystics : nationalism and the commemoration of saints in Turkey /

Humanist mystics : nationalism and the commemoration of saints in Turkey /

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Author / Creator:	Soileau, Mark, author.
Imprint:	Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, [2018]
Description:	1 online resource.
Language:	English
Series:	Utah series in Middle East studies
Subject:	Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, -- Maulana, -- 1207-1273. Hacı Bektaş Veli, -- active 13th century. Yunus Emre, -- -1320? Hacı Bektaş Veli, -- active 13th century. Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, -- Maulana, -- 1207-1273. Yunus Emre, -- -1320? Muslim saints. Secularization (Theology) Nationalism -- Turkey -- History. Sufism -- Turkey -- History. Muslim saints. Nationalism. Secularization (Theology) Sufism. Turkey. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12021623

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Varying Form of Title:	Nationalism and the commemoration of saints in Turkey Human mystics
ISBN:	9781607816348 1607816342 9781607816331 1607816334 9781607816331
Notes:	Based on the author's thesis of the same title, University of California, Santa Barbara, Ph. D. in Religious Studies, 2006. Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
Summary:	"When the Ottoman Empire met its demise in the early twentieth century, the new republic closed down the Sufi orders, with the rationale that they were anti-modern. Yet the nascent nation, faced with defining its cultural heritage, soon began to emphasize the Turkish ethnicity of the Sufi saints, and, in the case of saints like Mevlana Celaleddin Rumi, Hacı Bektaş Veli, and Yunus Emre, to focus on universalist themes found in their poetry and legends, such as love, peace, fellowship, and tolerance between ethnic and religious communities. With this reinterpretation of their legacies (part of a broader ideological shift toward secularism), these saints have now come to be considered the great Turkish humanists. Today their veneration plays a greater role in the nationalistic preservation of Turkish culture than in a remembered heritage of Islamic religion. Humanist Mystics is the first book to examine Islam and secularism within Turkish nationalist ideology through the lens of the commemorated saints. Soileau surveys the Anatolian and Turkish religious and political history as context for his closer attention to the lives and influence of the three Sufi saints. By comparing pre-modern hagiographic and scholarly representations with twentieth-century monographs, literary works, artistic media, and commemorative ceremonies, he shows how the saints have been transformed into humanist mystics, and how this change has led to debates about their character and relevance"--Provided by publisher.
Other form:	Print version: Soileau, Mark. Human mystics. Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, [2018] 9781607816331

Table of Contents:

Prologue: Shape-shifting saints
Commemoration, saints, and nationalization
Nationalism, secularism, and the rise of humanist mystics
Our master : memories of Mevlana Celaleddin Rumi
The fountainhead : memories of Hacı Bektaş Veli
Our Yunus : memories of Yunus Emre
Epilogue: Saint-shaping shifts.