Minkov, Anton

Kisve bahası (Ott. Turk., or baha-i kisve , cash value of clothing) is an Ottoman administrative/chancery term used for cash disbursements to new Muslims who converted to Islam in the presence of the sultan or other Ottoman dignitaries. The practice is of historiographical signi…

Bulgaria is a country in the Balkans, bordered by the Black Sea in the east and the Danube River in the north. It comprises the Danubian Plain (ancient Lower Moesia), the Upper Thracian Plain, and the Rila-Rhodope massif. The Stara Planina mountain range (ancient Haemus), also c…

Conversion to Islam in the Ottoman Balkans initially followed a pattern similar to the one established by Bulliet for the regions incorporated in the course of the seventh and eighth centuries into the Islamic realm. By the early eighteenth century, close to forty percent of the…