Dervishes And Islam In Bosnia

Download or read book Dervishes and Islam in Bosnia written by Ines Aščerić-Todd and published by Brill Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2015-01-30 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asceric-Todd explores the involvment 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, she 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).