TY - JOUR
T1 - Water for the saints of Baghdad
T2 - The hydrology of a sacred Ottoman geography
AU - Husain, Faisal H.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2021.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Following the conquest of Baghdad in 1534, the Ottoman Empire pursued a wide range of policies to maintain the shrines of Muslim saints buried in the province, many of whom were revered by both the Sunni Ottomans and the Shii Safavids. Ottoman endeavors entailed active management of the Tigris and Euphrates waters to provision inland shrines with water and guard those on the riverbanks from damaging floods. With a hydraulic infrastructure, the Ottomans appropriated the memories of the saints of Baghdad and reinforced their territorial claims to the province in the face of a rising Shii power in Persia. The story highlights the political and religious dimensions of water control in a sacred geography as imperial conflicts within Islamdom and Christendom redrew the map of Eurasia.
AB - Following the conquest of Baghdad in 1534, the Ottoman Empire pursued a wide range of policies to maintain the shrines of Muslim saints buried in the province, many of whom were revered by both the Sunni Ottomans and the Shii Safavids. Ottoman endeavors entailed active management of the Tigris and Euphrates waters to provision inland shrines with water and guard those on the riverbanks from damaging floods. With a hydraulic infrastructure, the Ottomans appropriated the memories of the saints of Baghdad and reinforced their territorial claims to the province in the face of a rising Shii power in Persia. The story highlights the political and religious dimensions of water control in a sacred geography as imperial conflicts within Islamdom and Christendom redrew the map of Eurasia.
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U2 - 10.1163/15700658-BJA10025
DO - 10.1163/15700658-BJA10025
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85113773661
SN - 1385-3783
VL - 25
SP - 319
EP - 344
JO - Journal of Early Modern History
JF - Journal of Early Modern History
IS - 4
ER -