Conversion to Islam in the Balkans : Kisve bahası petitions and Ottoman social life, 1670-1730 / by Anton Minkov.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Minkov, Anton.

Series:

Ottoman Empire and its heritage 1380-6076 ; v. 30.

The Ottoman Empire and its heritage, 1380-6076 ; v. 30

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islam--Balkan Peninsula--History.

Islam.

Muslims--Balkan Peninsula--History.

Muslims.

Manners and customs.

Religion.

History.

Balkan Peninsula--Religion.

Balkan Peninsula.

Balkan Peninsula--Civilization--Islamic influences.

Civilization.

Turkey--Social life and customs--17th century.

Turkey.

Turkey--Social life and customs--18th century.

Physical Description:

x, 277 pages : illustrations, maps, facsimiles ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2004.

Summary:

By examining available demographic data and petitions submitted by non-Muslims for accepting Islam, this volume convincingly reconstructs the stages of the Islamization process in the Balkans and offers an insight to the motives and factors behind conversion.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Conversion to Islam before the Ottomans: Theories of Conversion 9

Chapter 2. Periods of Conversion to Islam in the Balkans and Demographic Processes 28

Chapter 3. Forms, Factors and Motives of Conversion to Islam in the Balkans 64

Chapter 4. Kisve Bahasi Petitions as Sources of Conversion 110

Chapter 5. The Institutionalization of Conversion: Kisve Bahasi Petitions as a Social Phenomenon 145

Chapter 6. The Collective Image of New Muslims who Submitted Kisve Bahasi Petitions to the Sultan, 1670s-1730s 166

Appendix 1. Kisve Bahasi Petitions: Facsimiles and Translations 201

Appendix 2. List of Archival Units in the National Library of Bulgaria containing Kisve Bahasi Petitions 244

Appendix 3. List of Archival Units in the Basbakanlik Ottoman Archive, Istanbul, containing Kisve Bahasi Petitions 252.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [253]-265) and index.

ISBN:

9004135766

OCLC:

53932712