Conversion to Islam in the Balkans : : Kisve Bahası Petitions and Ottoman Social Life, 1670-1730 / / Anton Minkov.
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, ch...
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| Superior document: | The Ottoman Empire and its Heritage ; 30 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2004. |
| Year of Publication: | 2004 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Ottoman Empire and its Heritage ;
30. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (295 p.) |
| Notes: | Includes facsimiles of Kisve bahası petitions with English translations. |
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| Other title: | Kisve Bahası Petitions and Ottoman Social Life, 1670-1730 |
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| Summary: | 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 bahası , is shown in the context of Ottoman social development. An innovative structural analysis of the petitions requesting kisve bahası leads to examining the origins of the practice and constructing a collective portrait of the new Muslims who submitted them. Facsimiles and translations of the most interesting petitions are appended. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1280467908 9786610467907 142371251X 9047402774 |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Anton Minkov. |