| Conversion to Islam in the Balkans: Kisve Bahası Petitions and Ottoman Social Life, 1670-1730 Contributor(s): Minkov, Anton (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004135766 ISBN-13: 9789004135765 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $159.60 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2004 Annotation: 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 bahas?, is shown in the context of Ottoman social development. An innovative structural analysis of the petitions requesting "kisve bahas? 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Islam - General - Architecture | Interior Design - General - History | Middle East - General |
| Dewey: 297.574 |
| LCCN: 2003069555 |
| Series: Ottoman Empire and Its Heritage |
| Physical Information: 0.95" H x 9.58" W x 6.4" (1.46 lbs) 296 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Middle East - Cultural Region - Asian - Religious Orientation - Islamic |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |