The Ottoman "wild west" : the Balkan frontier in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries /

The Ottoman "wild west" : the Balkan frontier in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries /

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Author / Creator:	Antov, Nikolay, author.
Imprint:	Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2017. ©2017
Description:	xv, 324 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Muslims -- Balkan Peninsula -- History -- To 1500. Muslims -- Balkan Peninsula -- History -- 16th century. Muslims. Balkan Peninsula -- History -- To 1500. Balkan Peninsula -- History -- 16th century. Turkey -- History -- 1453-1683. Ludogorie (Bulgaria) -- History -- To 1500. Ludogorie (Bulgaria) -- History -- 16th century. Gerlovo Region (Bulgaria) -- History -- To 1500. Gerlovo Region (Bulgaria) -- History -- 16th century. Balkan Peninsula. Bulgaria -- Ludogorie. Turkey. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11458538

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ISBN:	9781107182639 1107182638
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 288-304) and index.
Summary:	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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Call Number:	DR39 .A57 2017
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