A Muslim Holy Man to Convert Christians in a Transottoman Setting: Approaches to Sari Saltuk from the Late Middle Ages to the Present

Interpretations of texts on Sari Saltuk may serve as a central example of the entanglement of Muslim and Christian contexts in (south-)eastern Europe and the Near East. Analyzing the fifteenth-century Saltuk-nâme and reports by Evliya Çelebi from the seventeenth century, a wide extension of the area...

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Published in:Entangled Religions
Main Author: Rohdewald, Stefan 1972- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Ruhr-Universität Bochum [2019]
In: Entangled Religions
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Sarı Saltuk ca. 13. Jh. / Veneration / Christian / Interreligiosity
RelBib Classification:AX Inter-religious relations
BJ Islam
CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations
TG High Middle Ages
Further subjects:B common veneration
B Anatolia
B Sari Saltuk
B Transottoman space
B culture of memory
B South Eastern Europe
B Central Asia
B Muslim-Christian saint cult
B Poland-Lithuania
B Russia
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Summary:Interpretations of texts on Sari Saltuk may serve as a central example of the entanglement of Muslim and Christian contexts in (south-)eastern Europe and the Near East. Analyzing the fifteenth-century Saltuk-nâme and reports by Evliya Çelebi from the seventeenth century, a wide extension of the area concerned, as far as Poland-Lithuania, Muscovy and Sweden, can be observed. With the change of the contents of reports from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, an increasing interest in Christians participating in the veneration of sites connected to Sari Saltuk can be remarked. Yet descriptions of a veneration of Sari S altuk in a non-Muslim setting r emain firmly embedded in Christian contexts, complicating a transreligious interpretation of them. In today's Turkish perspective, though, Sari Saltuk is no longer contextualized in a manner encompassing Russia and Poland, too, but much more in a context focusing on and affirming national Turkish Anatolian or nationalized post-Ottoman contents in the Balkans.
ISSN:2363-6696
Contains:Enthalten in: Entangled Religions
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.13154/er.v9.2019.57-78