ISBN:
9786059022606
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605902260X
Language:
English
Pages:
522 Seiten
,
21 cm
Edition:
2nd edition
Series Statement:
Libra kitap 158
Series Statement:
History 139
Series Statement:
Libra kitap
Series Statement:
Libra kitap / Tarih dizisi
Dissertation note:
Dissertation Boğaziçi University, History Department 2013
Keywords:
Occultism History 19th century
;
Occultism History 20th century
;
Superstition History 19th century
;
Superstition History 20th century
;
Occultism
;
Magic
;
Islamic magic
;
Superstition
;
Superstition Religious aspects
;
Islam
;
Islamic magic
;
Magic
;
Occultism
;
Superstition
;
Superstition ; Religious aspects ; Islam
;
History
;
Turkey
;
Hochschulschrift
;
Osmanisches Reich
;
Aberglaube
;
Magie
;
Okkultismus
Abstract:
This book is about the social history of superstitious beliefs and especially magic and sorcery. I mainly tried to examine how superstitious beliefs and magic transformed the daily life of the Ottoman Empire into a world of superstitions in the nineteenth century. However, I had to go further back when I deepened my research into the origin of superstitious beliefs and magic seen in almost every period of the Ottoman Empire. I looked at polytheistic religions like shamanism, Animism, Manichaenism, Buddhism and Hinduism, which were the common religious beliefs of the former Turkish world. I included various other pagan religions and cultures underlying the past of the Ottoman geography over three continents as well as Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Christianity, the Sky God belief in Central Asia and finally Islam. . In the Ottoman Empire, "professional" magicians were of the ulema class who were not reluctant to utilize religious knowledge for their personal interests. In fact, they began to live immorally; "amateur" magicians were composed of occult groups, a.k.a. pseudo-clergy. I followed magic and magicians included in the documents of the Prime Ministry Ottoman State Archives only as they were caught as a result of a complaint. Füsun and Efsun, daughters of Cinci Arif Hoca, and their story add local and authentic flavor to the points made in the book
Note:
"1st edition: 2016"--Title page verso
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 463-509) and index
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Text auf Englisch, Appendices auf Türkisch
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