Conversion to Islam in the Balkans: Kisve Bahas ̧petitions and Ottoman Social Life, 1670-1730BRILL, 2004 M01 1 - 277 pages 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. |
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aban According akçes Anatolia areas Asia Minor ba defterdar ba muhasebe Balkans Bektashi Bogomilism Bosnia Bulgarian Bulliet Cemaziülahır Cemaziülevvel cizye conversion to Islam database demographic dev irme Devshirme documents economic eighteenth century endorsement entity-symbols evval example fetvas fifteenth Grand Vizier Grozdanova guru hanes History Holy Islam Ibid idem institution Istanbul Janissary corps kisve bahası petitions land latter luxury set Macedonia Mehmed Mehmed IV Metin Kunt Muharrem Muslim names Muslims New Muslims nalcık Nevrokop nomenklatura non-Muslim population NPTA XX Osmanlı Ottoman Empire Ottoman Rule percent period peti petitioners pointed Pomaks process of conversion Radushev Ramazan Razprostranenie reaya Rebiülahır Rebiülevvel Receb regard region registers religion religious request Rodopi rural sancak scholars servant set of clothes seventeenth century sipahis sixteenth century Skopje social society Sofia sultan tion Todorov Treasury bill Turkic Turkish urban Velkov Vidin village Vryonis Zelyazkova Zilkade ا ا ا او به