Dervishes and Islam in Bosnia: Sufi dimensions to the formation of Bosnian Muslim society

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Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

List of Abbreviations

A Note on Names and Transliteration

Introduction

Aims and Scope

Islam in Bosnia – History, Historiography and Political Dimensions

Bosnian Muslim Society and Dervish Orders – Parameters, Sources and Methodology

A Note on ‘Syncretism’ and ‘Heterodoxy’

PART 1: Conquest, Settlement and Town-Formation in Ottoman Bosnia: The Sufi Contribution to the Early Stages of the Development of Bosnian Muslim Society

1 Dervishes and the Ottoman Conquest of Bosnia

2 The Earliest Tekkes in Bosnia

3 Dervishes as Founders of Bosnian Towns

PART 2: Urban Realities of Ottoman Bosnia: Trade-Guilds, Tekkes and Dervish Traditions at the Heart of City Life

4 Akhis, Dervish Orders and the Religious Character of Bosnian Guilds

5 Futuwwa Documents: Fütüvvetnames, Secerenames and Pirnames

6 Guild Punishments, Ceremonies and Festivities

7 The Akhi-Baba

8 The Guilds and the State

9 The Guilds and the Islamisation Process

PART 3: Political Roles of Bosnian Dervishes: the Hamzevis – A Dervish Order or a Socio-Political Movement?

10 The Heyday and End of the Hamzevi Movement

11 The Foundations of the Hamzevi Order: Hamza-Dede’s Tekke and Islamisation in the Tuzla Region

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index