Conversion To Islam In The Balkans

Author : Anton Minkov
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047402774
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conversion to Islam in the Balkans written by Anton Minkov and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004-04-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Oxford University Press
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199803811
Total Pages : 21 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Islam in the Balkans: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide written by Oxford University Press and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of Islamic studies find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides bibliographic information supported by direct recommendations about which sources to consult and editorial commentary to make it clear how the cited sources are interrelated related. A reader will discover, for instance, the most reliable introductions and overviews to the topic, and the most important publications on various areas of scholarly interest within this topic. In Islamic studies, as in other disciplines, researchers at all levels are drowning in potentially useful scholarly information, and this guide has been created as a tool for cutting through that material to find the exact source you need. This ebook is a static version of an article from Oxford Bibliographies Online: Islamic Studies, a dynamic, continuously updated, online resource designed to provide authoritative guidance through scholarship and other materials relevant to the study of the Islamic religion and Muslim cultures. Oxford Bibliographies Online covers most subject disciplines within the social science and humanities, for more information visit www.aboutobo.com.

Author : H. T. Norris
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780872499775
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Islam in the Balkans written by H. T. Norris and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Tijana Krstic
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804773173
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contested Conversions to Islam written by Tijana Krstic and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-13 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Anton Minkov
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004135766
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conversion to Islam in the Balkans written by Anton Minkov and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Theodora Dragostinova
Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 9633861330
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond Mosque, Church, and State written by Theodora Dragostinova and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-30 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journalists and policy-makers in the West have often assumed that the religious and ethno-national heterogeneity of the Balkans is the underlying reason for the numerous problems the area has faced throughout the twentieth century. The multiple and turbulent political transitions in the area, the dynamics of the interaction between Christianity and Islam, the contradictory and constantly shifting nationality policies, and the fluctuating identities of the diverse populations continue to be seen as major challenges to the stability of the region. By exploring the development of intricate religious, linguistic, and national dynamics in a variety of case studies throughout the Balkans, this volume demonstrates the existence of alternatives and challenges to nationalism in the area. The authors analyze a variety of national, non-national, and anti-national(ist) encounters in four areas?Bosnia, Bulgaria, Macedonia, and Albania?traditionally seen as ?hot-beds? of nationalist agitation and tension resulting from their populations' religious or ethno-national diversity. In their entirety, the contributions in this volume chart a more complex picture of the national dynamics. The authors recognize the existence of national tensions both in historical perspective and in contemporary times, but also suggest the possibility of different paths to the nation that did not involve violence but allowed for national accommodation and reconciliation.

Author : Kristen Ghodsee
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400831350
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Muslim Lives in Eastern Europe written by Kristen Ghodsee and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-27 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Olivier Roy
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137517840
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Revival of Islam in the Balkans written by Olivier Roy and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Ines Aščerić-Todd
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004288449
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dervishes and Islam in Bosnia written by Ines Aščerić-Todd and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-01-27 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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).

Author : Noel Malcolm
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190262788
Total Pages : 651 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Agents of Empire written by Noel Malcolm and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 651 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "First published in Great Britain by Penguin Random House UK"--Title page verso.