TY  - BOOK
AU  - Minkov,Anton
TI  - Conversion to Islam in the Balkans: Kisve Bahası Petitions and Ottoman Social Life, 1670-1730 
T2  - Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
SN  - 9789047402770
AV  - BP65.B28 
U1  - 297.5/74/0946 23
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Leiden; , Boston
PB  - BRILL
KW  - Civilization
KW  - Islamic influences
KW  - Islam
KW  - Balkan Peninsula
KW  - History
KW  - Muslims
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789047402770
ER  -