Conversion to Islam in the Balkans: Kisve bahası petitions and Ottoman social life, 1670-1730
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1. Verfasser: Minkov, Anton (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Leiden Brill 2004
Schriftenreihe:Ottoman Empire and its heritage v. 30
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Beschreibung:Includes facsimiles of Kisve bahası petitions with English translations
Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-265) and index
Conversion to Islam before the Ottomans: theories of conversion -- Periods of conversion to Islam in the Balkans and demographic processes -- Forms, factors, and motives of conversion to Islam in the Balkans -- Kisve bahası petitions as sources of conversion -- The institutionalization of conversion: Kisve bahası petitions as a social phenomenon -- The collective image of new Muslims who submitted Kisve bahası petitions to the Sultan, 1670-1730s
This volume offers a new approach to the subject of conversion to Islam in the Balkans. It reconstructs the stages of the Islamization process from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries and examines the factors and stimuli behind it. The practice of accepting Islam in the front of the sultan, characteristic of the last period of Islamization, and granting to new Muslims an amount of money known as kisve bahasi, is shown in the context of Ottoman social development. An innovative structural analysis of the petitions requesting kisve bahasi leads to examining the origins of the practice and
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (x, 277 p.)
ISBN:142371251X
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9047402774
9781423712510
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