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Nikolay Antov

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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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.


RUS

В XVI веке северо-восточные Балканы трансформировались из малозаселенного пограничья в один из ключевых центров исламской жизни. Николай Антов прослеживает процесс укоренения ислама на османской окраине — не как единой системы, а через множество локальных практик, интегрированных в повседневность.

На основе административных, правовых и литературных источников автор демонстрирует, как ислам становился неотъемлемой частью регионального ландшафта и как параллельно с этим происходила трансформация самой Османской империи — от гибкой приграничной структуры к централизованному государству.

Книга представляет новый взгляд на историю исламизации, формирования империи и роли Балкан в османском мире.

  • Publication date: 4 September 2025
  • Page count: 470
  • Publisher: Academic Studies Press
  • Format: Hardback
  • Language: rus
  • ISBN-13: 9798887199443

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