56 Abou-El-Haj R., “Aspects of the legitimation of Ottoman rule”, p. 381.
57 Abou-El-Haj R., “Aspects of the legitimation of Ottoman rule”, p. 372.
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stakeholders, first and foremost Ebū’s-Su‘ūd Efendi. However absent the grand
mufti personally was from Cairo in the 1590s, Muḥyī made him present there
and then, precisely by reciprocating him. This he did most clearly through his
tefsīr, where he simply emulated Ebū’s-Su‘ūd’s interpretation. This he also did,
I claim, by writing not one but two ‘Azāle-Nāmes. As I have argued, somewhat
more tentatively, these two texts, when read together, reify the vision of empire
as championed by Ebū’s-Su‘ūd: a vision of siyāset şer‘īye.
As a third and final point, I hope that, by reading the texts along these lines,
we can now better appreciate — that is, in a non-utilitarian and non-cynical
way — the multi-dimensional and kaleidoscopic identity of both Muḥyī and
of the empire he lived in: the first, an intricate constellation of multifarious
strands, including that of an edīb in search of patronage and a nā’ib ḳādı in the
service of state, a Gülşenī Sufi and a Hanafi Sunni; the second, an empire in
which belligerent sultans consulted with their pīrs, where the Ottoman ılġar
was equalled with an Islamic farz-i ‘ayn, where Ḫalvetī cells sided with teeming
caravanserais, and where Firdawsī’s Şāhnāme shared its eager audience with
the grand mufti’s İrşādü’l-‘Aḳli’s-Sālim.
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