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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Table of Contents:
- Contents; List of Tables and Graphs; Acknowledgments; Note on Transliteration; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter One. Conversion to Islam before the Ottomans: Theories of Conversion; Chapter Two. Periods of Conversion to Islam in the Balkans and Demographic Processes; Chapter Three. Forms, Factors and Motives of Conversion to Islam in the Balkans; Chapter Four. Kisve Bahasi Petitions as Sources of Conversion; Chapter Five. The Institutionalization of Conversion: Kisve Bahasi Petitions as a Social Phenomenon
- Chapter Six. The Collective Image of New Muslims who Submitted Kisve Bahasi Petitions to the Sultan, 1670s-1730sConclusion; Appendices; Bibliography; Index