| Description |
1 online resource (x, 277 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
The Ottoman Empire and its heritage,
1380-6076 ;
v. 30
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Ottoman Empire and its heritage ; v. 30.
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| Note |
Includes facsimiles of Kisve bahası petitions with English translations. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-265) and index. |
| Contents |
Conversion to Islam before the Ottomans: theories of conversion -- Periods of conversion to Islam in the Balkans and demographic processes -- Forms, factors, and motives of conversion to Islam in the Balkans -- Kisve bahası petitions as sources of conversion -- The institutionalization of conversion: Kisve bahası petitions as a social phenomenon -- The collective image of new Muslims who submitted Kisve bahası petitions to the Sultan, 1670-1730s. |
| 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 bahasi, is shown in the context of Ottoman social development. An innovative structural analysis of the petitions requesting kisve bahasi leads to examining the origins of the practice and. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
In English; includes some text in Ottoman Turkish, with English translation. |
| Subject |
Islam -- Balkan Peninsula -- History.
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Islam. |
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Balkan Peninsula. |
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History. |
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Muslims -- Balkan Peninsula -- History.
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Muslims. |
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Balkan Peninsula -- Religion.
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Religion. |
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Balkan Peninsula -- Civilization -- Islamic influences.
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Civilization. |
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Turkey -- Social life and customs -- 18th century.
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Turkey. |
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Manners and customs. |
| Chronological Term |
18th century |
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1600-1799 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Title |
Kisve bahası petitions and Ottoman social life, 1670-1730 |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Minkov, Anton. Conversion to Islam in the Balkans. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2004 (DLC) 2003069555 |
| ISBN |
142371251X (electronic book) |
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9781423712510 (electronic book) |
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9047402774 |
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9789047402770 |
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9789004135765 |
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9004135766 |
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9004135766 |
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