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

1. Verfasser: Antov, Nikolay, , [VerfasserIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Umfang/Format: xv, 324 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Schlagworte:
Muslime > de > 16th century.
Muslime > de > To 1500.
Balkanhalbinsel > 16th century.
Balkanhalbinsel > To 1500.
> History > 16th century.
> History > To 1500.
> History > 1453-1683.
iDAI.gazetteer: Balkanhalbinsel
Inhaltsangabe:
  • The broad historical context : the rise of the Ottoman empire and the formation of Muslim communities in the Balkans as an integral part of the ottomanization of the region
  • The rise of the Ottomans, ca. 1300-ca. 1550 : an overview
  • The Ottoman transformation from a frontier principality to an imperial bureaucratic regime
  • The formation of Muslim communities in the Ottoman Balkans in historiography and memory
  • 1.3.1 Major theories of the formation and development of Muslim communities in the Ottoman Balkans
  • 1.3.2 Assessment of the theories of the formation of Muslim communities in the Ottoman Balkans
  • Colonization, settlement, and faith in the Balkans in the early Ottoman period (ca. 1352 to early 16th century)
  • Colonization and settlement in the early Ottoman Balkans : historical and historiographic overview
  • The abdals of Rum(eli) and their allies : "heterodox" Islam, Turcoman colonization, and legitimacy (late 14th-early 16th centuries)
  • ^Conquest, colonization, and authority in the early Ottoman Balkans in the light of heterodox hagiographic works : the velayetnames of Seyyid ali Sultan (kızıl deli) and Otman baba
  • 2.3.1 Kızıl deli, Rüstem gazi, and the conquest of the Balkans
  • 2.3.2. Otman baba
  • The northeastern Balkans from the late medieval period to the late fifteenth century : pre-Ottoman Turcoman invasions and migrations, the Ottoman conquest, and the "turbulent" fifteenth century. Deliorman and Gerlovo as a "special case"
  • Introduction
  • Turcoman involvement in the northeastern Balkans prior to the Ottoman conquest
  • 3.2.1. Pontic Turcoman incursions into the Balkans in the pre-Ottoman period
  • 3.2.2 The migration of Seljuk Turks to Dobrudja and the role of Sarı Saltık
  • The northeastern Ottoman Balkans in the "turbulent" fifteenth century
  • 3.3.1 The battle of Ankara and the Ottoman interregnum
  • 3.3.2 The revolt of Sheykh Bedreddin
  • ^3.3.3 The crusade of Varna (1444) and the invasion of Vlad III Tepes south of the Danube (1461-1462)
  • Patterns of demographic and socio-economic development in Deliorman and Gerlovo in the late fifteenth century. Deliorman and Gerlovo as a "special case"
  • The repopulation of Deliorman and Gerlovo's countryside in the sixteenth century
  • The re-population of Deliorman and Gerlovo in the sixteenth century : sürgün and göç, the role of the state and its limits
  • Major aspects of rural Deliorman and Gerlovo's demographic transformation in the sixteenth century : Turcoman re-population, conversion to Islam, the rise of Derbend villages, and Christian-Muslim co-existence in the light of Ottoman tax registers
  • 4.2.1 The development of the settlement network
  • 4.2.2. demographic analysis by settlement size
  • 4.2.3 demographic analysis by overall population size and status of taxpayers
  • ^4.2.4 major agents of Turcoman colonization in the countryside : yürüks and other nomadic or semi-nomadic groups, dervishes, and descendants of the prophet
  • 4.2.5 Waqf (pious endowment) villages
  • 4.2.6 Derbend villages
  • The development of the urban network in sixteenth-century Deliorman. the emergence of Hezargrad and Eski Cuma, the transformation of Shumnu into an Islamic city, and the decline of Chernovi
  • Introduction : the Islamic city, the Ottoman city, and the Ottoman Balkan city
  • The emergence of Ottoman Hezargrad (mod. Razgrad)
  • 5.2.1 Ancient and medieval background
  • 5.2.2 The emergence of a new Ottoman town
  • 5.2.3 The socio-economic development of Hezargrad
  • The growth and transformation of Shumnu (Shumen) into an Ottoman town
  • 5.3.1 The socio-economic development of Shumnu
  • The decline of Chernovi (Cherven)
  • The rise of Eski Cuma (Cuma-i atik, mod. Targovishte)
  • Concluding remarks
  • Religion, culture, and authority : two case studies
  • ^Introduction
  • Demir baba and the abdals of Rum of Otman baba's branch in Deliorman and Gerlovo
  • 6.2.1 the abdals of Rum of Otman baba's branch from the death of Otman baba to Demir baba's emergence as "pole of poles"
  • 6.2.2 The life of Demir baba as "pole" in the light of his velayetname
  • 6.2.2.1 Debate and contest marvels and recognition : Demir baba's image as an axial saint and communal leader
  • 6.2.2.2 Demir baba and the community : the saint as an epitome of power, justice, and generosity
  • 6.2.2.3 Demir baba as a gazi
  • 6.2.2.4 Demir baba and the Ottoman dynasty, state, and political order
  • 6.2.2.5 Demir baba and his spiritual and sectarian rivals
  • 6.2.2.6 positioning the abdals of Rum (of Otman baba's branch) in the Ottoman sectarian and socio-cultural spectrum
  • The foundation of Hezargrad as an assertion of the Ottoman imperial order
  • Issues in religion, culture, and authority : conversion to Islam and confessionalization
  • ^Conversion to Islam in Deliorman and Gerlovo
  • 7.1.1. conversion to Islam in the countryside : general remarks
  • 7.1.2 "Colonizing heterodox dervishes" and conversion to Islam
  • 7.1.3 Conversion and converts to Islam in the urban centers : the cases of Hezargrad and Shumnu
  • 7.1.3.1 conversion and converts in sixteenth-century Hezargrad
  • 7.1.3.2. conversion and converts in Shumnu
  • Confessionalization and confession building : insights from Deliorman and Gerlovo.

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