Ebru Sönmez, Idris-i Bidlisi Ottoman Kurdistan and Islamic Legitimacy

Year 2017, Volume: 49 Issue: 49, 484 - 490, 16.03.2017

Vural Genç

https://doi.org/10.18589/oa.591022

Abstract

Ebru Sönmez’s book, Idris-i Bidlisi Ottoman Kurdistan and Islamic Legitimacy, is an ambitious and broad-ranging study covering Bidlīsī’s biography, his role
in the administration of Ottoman Kurdistan, and his significant contributions to
the religio-political debates of the sixteenth century.1 Organized into three chapters, the book centers on a political and intellectual biography of Bidlīsī, and his
role in the Ottoman-Safavid conflict.

Keywords

Ebru Sönmez, Idris-i Bidlisi Ottoman Kurdistan and Islamic Legitimacy

References

• Ebru Sönmez, Idris-i Bidlisi Ottoman Kurdistan and Islamic Legitimacy, İstanbul: Libra Kitap, 2012, 190 pp., ISBN: 978-605-4326-56-3.