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Elite Circulation in the Ottoman Empire: Great Mollas of the Eighteenth Century

1983; Brill; Volume: 26; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/3631889

1568-5209

Madeline C. Zilfi,

Ottoman Empire History and Society

ELITE CIRCULATION IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE: GREAT MOLLAS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY BY MADELINE C. ZILFI University of Maryland "Great men" gave life to the Ottoman religious institution (ilmiye) of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. For twenty and thirty years at a time individual scholar-jurists (ulema) like the Seybulislams Molla Hüsrev (d. 1480), Zenbilli Ali Cemali (d. I52S-26) and Ebussuud Mehmed (d: * embodied the range and depth of the Ottoman learned tradition. Their role in shaping the office of §eyhulislam into the examination and appointment authority for the ilmiye, the hierarchy of ulema in state service, casts them as