HUMA 1845 Lecture Notes - Lecture 84: Sheikh Edebali, Naqshbandi, Tariqa
6 Jan 2018
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There was occasionally antagonism between some of the orthodox scholars and the sufis. For example, in the ottoman empire of the mid-sixteenth century, the jurist ibrahim of aleppo (d. 1549) and the ottoman chief mufti, Ivizade mehmed (d. 1542), adopted anti-sufi positions, while the. Sufis for their part conducted a literary polemic against these orthodox opponents. The poet khayali (d. 1556/57) compared the orthodox scholars who could not recognize that god was in the world around them to "fish who are in the sea, but do not know what the sea is. " Nonetheless, opponents of the sufis remained a minority and tasawwuf in practice became an important strand of mainstream islam in the ottoman empire. Several mystic sects were prominent in the ottoman empire, including the bekta i, halveti, mevlevi, rifai, qadiri, naqshbandi and bayrami. Of all of these, the ottoman rulers were probably closest to the.
