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Conversion to Islam in the Balkans : Kisve bahası petitions and Ottoman social life, 1670-1730 /
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, ch...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Ottoman Turkish |
| Publicado: |
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2004.
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| Colección: | Ottoman Empire and its heritage ;
v. 30. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Notas: | Includes facsimiles of Kisve bahası petitions with English translations. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 277 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-265) and index. |
| ISBN: | 142371251X 9781423712510 9047402774 9789047402770 9789004135765 9004135766 1280467908 9781280467905 9786610467907 6610467900 |
| ISSN: | 1380-6076 ; |
| Acceso: | Access restricted to Ryerson students, faculty and staff. |