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Cover illustration: “The Great Abu Sa’ud [Şeyhü’l-islām Ebū’s-suʿūd Efendi] Teaching Law,” Folio from a dīvān of Maḥmūd ‘Abd-al Bāqī (1526/7–1600), The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The image is available in Open Access at:
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Names: Krstić, Tijana, editor. | Terzioğlu, Derin, 1969- editor.
Title: Historicizing Sunni Islam in the Ottoman Empire, c. 1450–c. 1750 / edited by Tijana Krstić, Derin Terzioğlu.
Description: Boston : Brill, 2020. | Series: Islamic history and civilization. studies and texts, 0929-2403 ; 177 | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020032337 (print) | LCCN 2020032338 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004440289 (hardback) | ISBN 9789004440296 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Islam–Turkey–History. | Turkey–History–Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918. | Sunna.
Classification: LCC BP63.T8 H57 2020 (print) | LCC BP63.T8 (ebook) | DDC 297.8/10956–dc23
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