This dissertation explores the transformation of early modern Ottoman religio-politicaland religio-social thought and practice between the late 16th and early 18th century. It shows how, in this pivotal period characterized by economic, political, ecological, and law and order crises in the Ottoman Empire, an increased preoccupation with mysticaloccult forms of embodied religion manifested itself at the level of the court in Istanbul, as well as at the level of broader Ottoman society in the Anatolian and Balkan provinces. Whilst until now scholars have used the state archives to shed light on the impact of “the 17th century crisis” on the Ottoman state’s policing and resource extraction efforts, this project uses mystical-occultist texts and talismanic objects to shed light on the complex religious dimensions of this period. More specifically, it demonstrates this increased preoccupation with the salvific power of sacred bodies across three key sites, namely: the ritual representation of the sultan’s body in the elaboration of Ottoman sacred kingship, the embodied miracle narratives in the hagiographies of Anatolian and Balkan Sufi saints, and the bodily renditions of the prophet Muḥammad and other Islamic figures in talismanic books and objects. By analyzing and drawing connections across this diverse corpus of textual and material production from the period, this project shows how people made use of bodies—of scared royal, saintly, and prophetic intermediaries as well as their own—to access immediate and concrete sources of divine power during times of need.