Conversion to Islam in the Balkans

Conversion to Islam in the Balkans

Author: Anton Minkov

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2004-01-01

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 9004135766

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By examining available demographic data and petitions submitted by non-Muslims for accepting Islam, this volume convincingly reconstructs the stages of the Islamization process in the Balkans and offers an insight to the motives and factors behind conversion.


Contested Conversions to Islam

Contested Conversions to Islam

Author: Tijana Krstic

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2011-05-13

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 0804773173

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This book explores the role of conversion to Islam in the emergence of the Ottoman Empire, its imperial ideology and Sunni identity, and its relationship with its Muslim and non-Muslim subjects, in the context of the early modern Mediterranean.


Islamization in Bosnia

Islamization in Bosnia

Author: York Norman

Publisher: Academic Press

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13: 9781680530421

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Introductory remarks -- The Islamization of Sarajevo -- The Islamization of Saray District -- Urban development in Sarajevo -- Agrarian development in Saray District -- Conclusion.


Agents of Empire

Agents of Empire

Author: Noel Malcolm

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 651

ISBN-13: 0190262788

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The story of a Venetian-Albanian family in the late sixteenth century forms the basis of a sweeping account of the interaction between East and West Europe and the Ottoman Empire at a pivotal moment in history.


Islam in the Balkans

Islam in the Balkans

Author: H. T. Norris

Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 9780872499775

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From the earliest times, also, many Balkan Muslim soldiers and bureaucrats, as well as scholars and poets, made an impact on the wider Islamic world, the most prominent being Mohammed Ali, the founder of modern Egypt.


Islamisation

Islamisation

Author: A. C. S. Peacock

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2017-03-08

Total Pages: 544

ISBN-13: 1474417132

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The spread of Islam and the process of Islamisation (meaning both conversion to Islam and the adoption of Muslim culture) is explored in the twenty-four chapters of this volume. Taking a comparative perspective, both the historical trajectory of Islamisation and the methodological problems in its study are addressed, with coverage moving from Africa to China and from the seventh century to the start of the colonial period in 1800. Key questions are addressed. What is meant by Islamisation? How far was the spread of Islam as a religion bound up with the spread of Muslim culture? To what extent are Islamisation and conversion parallel processes? How is Islamisation connected to Arabisation? What role do vernacular Muslim languages play in the promotion of Muslim culture? The broad, comparative perspective allows readers to develop a thorough understanding of the process of Islamisation over eleven centuries of its history.


The Ottoman Conquest of the Balkans

The Ottoman Conquest of the Balkans

Author: Oliver Jens Schmitt

Publisher:

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783700178903

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The Ottoman conquest of the Balkans constitutes a major change in European history. Scholarship on the topic is extensive, yet the evidence produced by decades of research is very scattered and lacking comprehensive synthesis, not to mention consensual interpretation. Although major political and military milestones seem to have been investigated thoroughly, there is a notable absence of more theoretical and interpretative approaches that overarch the entire phenomenon rather than merely individual aspects. Scholars have hitherto addressed the topic from various perspectives and employing a wide range of methods, but Byzantine studies, Ottoman studies, Eastern Mediterranean studies and national historiographies in the Balkan countries have yet to establish either a coherent collaboration or a consistent model of interpretation. This volume therefore rather aims at opening and structuring a new heuristic approach and at coordinating a field of studies that is of crucial importance for understanding change in European history.


Muslim Lives in Eastern Europe

Muslim Lives in Eastern Europe

Author: Kristen Ghodsee

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2009-07-27

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 1400831350

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Muslim Lives in Eastern Europe examines how gender identities were reconfigured in a Bulgarian Muslim community following the demise of Communism and an influx of international aid from the Islamic world. Kristen Ghodsee conducted extensive ethnographic research among a small population of Pomaks, Slavic Muslims living in the remote mountains of southern Bulgaria. After Communism fell in 1989, Muslim minorities in Bulgaria sought to rediscover their faith after decades of state-imposed atheism. But instead of returning to their traditionally heterodox roots, isolated groups of Pomaks embraced a distinctly foreign type of Islam, which swept into their communities on the back of Saudi-financed international aid to Balkan Muslims, and which these Pomaks believe to be a more correct interpretation of their religion. Ghodsee explores how gender relations among the Pomaks had to be renegotiated after the collapse of both Communism and the region's state-subsidized lead and zinc mines. She shows how mosques have replaced the mines as the primary site for jobless and underemployed men to express their masculinity, and how Muslim women have encouraged this as a way to combat alcoholism and domestic violence. Ghodsee demonstrates how women's embrace of this new form of Islam has led them to adopt more conservative family roles, and how the Pomaks' new religion remains deeply influenced by Bulgaria's Marxist-Leninist legacy, with its calls for morality, social justice, and human solidarity.


Dervishes and Islam in Bosnia

Dervishes and Islam in Bosnia

Author: Ines Aščerić-Todd

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2015-01-27

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9004288449

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In Dervishes and Islam in Bosnia, Ines Aščerić-Todd explores the involvement of Sufi orders in the formation of Muslim society in the first two centuries of Ottoman rule in Bosnia (15th - 16th centuries C.E.). Using a wide range of primary sources, Aščerić-Todd shows that Sufi traditions and the activities of dervish orders were at the heart of the religious, cultural, socio-economic and political dynamics in Bosnia in the period which witnessed the emergence of Bosnian Muslim society and the most intensive phase of conversions of the Bosnian population to Islam. In the process, she also challenges some of the established views regarding Ottoman guilds and the subject of futuwwa (Sufi code of honour).


The Revival of Islam in the Balkans

The Revival of Islam in the Balkans

Author: Olivier Roy

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-07-28

Total Pages: 349

ISBN-13: 1137517840

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This book shifts analytical focus from macro-politicization and securitization of Islam to Muslims' choices, practices and public expressions of faith. An empirically rich analysis, the book provides rich cross-country evidence on the emergence of autonomous faith communities as well as the evolution of Islam in the broader European context.