Abstract
The article explores the understudied theological-legal concept and practice of renewal of faith, an Ottoman innovation dating from the fifteenth century. It situates this practice within the context of the Ottoman and, more broadly, Mediterranean ‘age of confessionalization’, an age in which rulers and dynasts across the Mediterranean infused ‘religious rhetoric into the processes of state and social formation’. This study focuses on the legal aspects of the Ottoman confessionalization project. It reconstructs the debate between various jurists concerning the practice of renewal of faith, and argues that this debate illustrates the multiple sites within the empire in which notions such as faith, ‘orthodoxy’, and unbelief were negotiated and articulated.
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