RT Book
T1 Conversion to Islam in the Balkans: Kisve bahası petitions and Ottoman social life, 1670-1730
T2 The Ottoman Empire and its heritage
JF The Ottoman Empire and its heritage
A1 Minkov, Anton
LA English
PP Leiden Boston
PB Brill
YR 2004
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/376161639
AB 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
NO Literaturangaben
NO Includes facsimiles of Kisve bahası petitions with English translations
CN BP65.B28
SN 978-90-04-13576-5
SN 90-04-13576-6
K1 Islam : History : Balkan Peninsula
K1 Muslims : History : Balkan Peninsula
K1 Islam : Balkan Peninsula : History
K1 Muslims : Balkan Peninsula : History
K1 Balkan Peninsula : Religion
K1 Balkan Peninsula : Civilization : Islamic influences
K1 Turkey : Social life and customs : 17th century
K1 Turkey : Social life and customs : 18th century