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Conversion to Islam in the Balkans : Kisve bahas petitions and Ottoman social life, 1670-1730 / by Anton Minkov.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Minkov, Anton.
- Series:
- Ottoman Empire and its heritage ; 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.
- Balkan Peninsula--Religion.
- Balkan Peninsula.
- Balkan Peninsula--Civilization--Islamic influences.
- Turkey--Social life and customs--17th century.
- Turkey.
- Turkey--Social life and customs--18th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (295 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Kisve bahas petitions and Ottoman social life, 1670-1730
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- 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
- Notes:
- Includes facsimiles of Kisve bahas petitions with English translations.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-265) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9786610467907
- 9781280467905
- 1280467908
- 9781423712510
- 142371251X
- 9789047402770
- 9047402774
- OCLC:
- 191947039
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789047402770 DOI
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