Format:
X, 277 Seiten
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Illustrationen, Karten
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25 cm
ISBN:
9789004135765
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9004135766
Series Statement:
The Ottoman Empire and its heritage 30
Content:
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
Note:
Literaturangaben
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Includes facsimiles of Kisve bahası petitions with English translations
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-265) and index
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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
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Balkanhalbinsel
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Islam
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Konversion
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Geschichte 1670-1730
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Balkanhalbinsel
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Islamisierung
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Osmanisches Reich
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Urkunde
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Islam
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Muslim
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Religion
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Konvertierung
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Daʿwa
;
Geschichte
;
Geschichte 1670-1730
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