Some Reflections on the Fluidity of Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy in an Ottoman Sunni Context
Document Type
Book Section
Publication Date
1-1-2019
Publication Title
Ottoman Sunnism: New Perspectives
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
First page number:
193
Last page number:
210
Abstract
Throughout their histories, there has been a strong tendency within religious traditions to differentiate between true and false doctrine and praxis, and Muslim communities were no exception. As a result, Muslim authors from the earliest periods of their recorded history have regularly produced arguments aimed at either defining themselves as falling within the orbit of the Muslim community and therefore ‘acceptable’, or defining others as ‘heterodox’ or ‘heretical’, thereby excluding them as outsiders to the community liable to persecution. These attempts at defining or policing the boundaries between legitimate and illegitimate thought and praxis were dramatically heightened by the modern...
Keywords
Ottoman sunnism; Religious traditions; Muslim communities; Orthodoxy; Heterodoxy
Disciplines
Arts and Humanities | History | History of Religion | International and Area Studies | Near and Middle Eastern Studies | Social and Behavioral Sciences
Language
English
Repository Citation
Curry, J.
(2019).
Some Reflections on the Fluidity of Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy in an Ottoman Sunni Context.
Ottoman Sunnism: New Perspectives
193-210.
Edinburgh University Press.