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Author Aščerić-Todd, Ines.

Title Dervishes and Islam in Bosnia : sufi dimensions to the formation of Bosnian Muslim society / by Ines Aščerić-Todd.

Publication Info. Boston : Brill, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series The Ottoman Empire and its Heritage
Ottoman Empire and its heritage.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Aims and Scope -- Islam in Bosnia -- History, historiography and political dimensions -- Bosnian Muslim society and dervish Orders -- Parameters, Sources and Methodology -- A note on 'syncretism' and 'heterodoxy' -- Conquest, settlement and town-formation in Ottoman Bosnia: The Sufi contribution to the early stages of the development of Bosnian Muslim society -- Dervishes and the Ottoman conquest of Bosnia -- The earliest tekkes in Bosnia -- Dervishes as founders of Bosnian towns -- Urban realities of Ottoman Bosnia: trade-guilds, tekkes and dervish traditions at the heart of city life -- Akhis, dervish orders and the religious character of Bosnian guilds -- Futuwwa documents futuvvetnames, secerenames and pirnames -- Guild punishments, ceremonies and festivities -- The Akhi-Baba -- The guilds and the state -- The guilds and the Islamisation process -- Political roles of Bosnian dervishes: the Hamzevis -- A dervish order or a socio-political movement? -- The heyday and end of the Hamzevi Movement -- The foundations of the Hamzevi Order: Hamza-Dede's tekke and Islamisation in the Tuzla Region.
Summary In <i>Dervishes and Islam in Bosnia</i>, Ines Aščerić-Todd explores the importance of dervish orders and Sufism in the formation of Muslim society in the first two centuries of Ottoman rule in Bosnia (15th - 16th centuries C.E.).
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Subject Sufism -- Bosnia and Herzegovina -- History.
Sufism.
Bosnia and Herzegovina.
History.
Islam -- Bosnia and Herzegovina -- History.
Islam.
Bosnia and Herzegovina -- History -- 1463-1878.
Chronological Term 1463-1878
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Aščerić-Todd, Ines. Dervishes and Islam in Bosnia 9789004278219 (DLC) 2014045295 (OCoLC)898113406
ISBN 9789004288447 electronic book
9004288449 electronic book
9789004278219
9004278214