Vision, Fellowship, and Method: Tariqa-Consciousness in Fifteenth-Century Rum (Carlos Grenier, 25 Nisan 2023)

Vision, Fellowship, and Method: Tariqa-consciousness in Fifteenth-Century Rum

What did it mean to belong to a spiritual community? During the fifteenth century, members of Sufi tariqas and other spiritual groups imagined their bonds with their fellows in a variety of ways. This talk will begin to explore this variety, and then ask how these various forms of connection manifested socially during an age when Sufi and other spiritual communities played important political roles.

Carlos Grenier is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Florida International University in Miami. His research explores how local and religious and intellectual communities responded to, and in turn helped create, early modern Ottoman society. His first monograph, The Spiritual Vernacular of the Early Ottoman Frontier: The Yazıcıoğlu Family, was published in 2021 by Edinburgh University Press and investigates the lives and writings of the Yazıcıoğlus of fifteenth-century Gelibolu.