The Spiritual Vernacular of the Early Ottoman Frontier

Explores early Ottoman popular piety through the lens of the Yazıcıoğlu brothers The first book-length study in English on the Yazıcıoğlu brothers, among the most popular vernacular religious writers and thinkers of the early Ottoman periodReconstructs the Yazıcıoğlus’ biographies, assesses the heritage of their language and ideas and analyses the ways these were adapted to their distinct settingArgues that Ottoman popular orthodoxy emerged as a synthesis of a cosmopolitan Islamic canon to addre