Toward a Neopythagorean Historiography: KemÄlpaÅazÄdeâs (d.Â 1534) Lettrist Call for the Conquest of Cairo and the Development of Ottoman Occult-Scientific Imperialism

Matthew Melvin-Koushki

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Chapter 9 Toward a Neopythagorean Historiography: KemÄlpaÅazÄdeâs (d.Â 1534) Lettrist Call for the Conquest of Cairo and the Development of Ottoman Occult-Scientific Imperialism

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004426979_010

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Abstract

The Ottoman imperial ideology developed under SÃ¼leymÄn the Magnificent (r. 926â974/1520â1566) was strongly occult-scientific in tenor, as is well known, and especially lettrist; less well known is the fact that SelÄ«m the Grim (r. 918â926/1512â1520) too patronized the kabbalistic science of letters (Ê¿ilm al-á¸¥urÅ«f) for purposes both ideological and military-strategic. Taking as a representative example a short lettrist treatise ostensibly written by the acclaimed polymath-jurist KemÄlpaÅazÄde Aá¸¥med (d.Â 940/1534) to urge his royal patron to invade Mamluk Egypt, this article traces the development of early Ottoman occult-scientific imperialist discourse on the basis of Mamluk-Timurid-Aqquyunlu precedent, which first incorporated pointedly lettrist arguments in support of competing claims to Islamic imperial universalism. Such is the immediate scholarly context in which KemÄlpaÅazÄdeâs curious little work is to be readâand constitutes, I argue, a new and distinctive form of Neopythagorean historiography. The Ottoman lettrist imperialism that is such a definitive feature of the expansive and transformative SÃ¼leymÄnic era is thus a product of inner-Persianate scholarly circulation and competition between Egypt, Iran, and Anatolia over the course of the equally transformative ninth/fifteenth century, and SelÄ«m thus a key exponent of early modern Western imperial expansionism and experimentalismâand occult philosopher-kingship.

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Islamicate Occult Sciences in Theory and Practice

Reihe:Â Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East, Band: 140

ISBN:: 9789004426979

Verleger:: Brill

Print-Publikationsdatum:: 09 Nov 2020

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Chapter 9 Toward a Neopythagorean Historiography: KemÄlpaÅazÄdeâs (d.Â 1534) Lettrist Call for the Conquest of Cairo and the Development of Ottoman Occult-Scientific Imperialism

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Chapter 9 Toward a Neopythagorean Historiography: KemÄlpaÅazÄdeâs (d.Â 1534) Lettrist Call for the Conquest of Cairo and the Development of Ottoman Occult-Scientific Imperialism