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The Ottoman 'Wild West' - The Balkan Frontier in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries (Hardcover)
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The Ottoman 'Wild West' - The Balkan Frontier in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries (Hardcover)
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In the late fifteenth century, the north-eastern Balkans were
under-populated and under-institutionalized. Yet, by the end of the
following century, the regions of Deliorman and Gerlovo were home
to one of the largest Muslim populations in southeast Europe.
Nikolay Antov sheds fresh light on the mechanics of Islamization
along the Ottoman frontier, and presents an instructive case study
of the 'indigenization' of Islam - the process through which Islam,
in its diverse doctrinal and socio-cultural manifestations, became
part of a distinct regional landscape. Simultaneously, Antov uses a
wide array of administrative, narrative-literary, and legal
sources, exploring the perspectives of both the imperial center and
regional actors in urban, rural, and nomadic settings, to trace the
transformation of the Ottoman polity from a frontier principality
into a centralized empire. Contributing to the further
understanding of Balkan Islam, state formation and empire building,
this unique text will appeal to those studying Ottoman, Balkan, and
Islamic world history.
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