Conversion to Islam in the Balkans - Kisve Bahası Petitions and Ottoman Social Life, 1670-1730

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.

About the author

Anton Minkov, Ph.D. (2000) in Islamic Studies, McGill University, is a part-time professor of Middle Eastern Studies at University of Ottawa. He is a contributor to Turkish Sources of Bulgarian History, vol. 8 (Sofia, 2001) and Balkan Identities (Sofia, 2003).

Product details

• Authors: Anton Minkov
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.03.2004
• EAN: 9789004135765
• ISBN: 978-90-04-13576-5
• No. of pages: 296
• Dimensions: 243 mm x 163 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 662 g
• Series: Ottoman Empire and Its Heritag
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous