Located on a promontory at the confluence of the Sava and Danube Rivers, Belgrade , the “White City,” was held successively by Bulgarians, Serbs, and Hungarians. It was a crucial strongpoint and the key to the Pannonian plain and it became the “bulwark of Christendom” after the …
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Ayvaz Dede (Ajvaz-dedo) is a legendary figure who is linked to an annual Muslim pilgrimage, the Ajvatovica, which takes place in June in the village of Prusac, in the present-day Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Ayvaz Dede, or “Grandfather Ayvaz,” is thought to have arrived…
ʿAlī Dede al-Sigetvārī (d. 1007/1598–9), or ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn ʿAlī Dede b. Muṣṭafā al-Bosnawī, also known as al-Sigetvārī, was a shaykh of the Khalwatiyya (a Ṣūfī order founded in medieval Herat) and the author of a number of works in Arabic. He was probably born around the beginning…
ʿAlī b. Muḥammad al-Zanjī (d. 2 Ṣafar 270/11 August 883), known as Ṣāḥib al-Zanj, “Chief of the Zanj,” was the leader of the famous rebellion of black slaves from the coast of East Africa, known as Zanj, who were, from an indefinite date onwards, imported in large numbers into ʿ…
ʿAbd al-Wahhāb b. Abū l-Wahhāb Ilḥāmī (or Ilḥāmī Bābā) (1187–1237/1773–1821) was a Bosnian poet, theologian, and mystic, also known as Abdulvehhab (i. e. ʿAbd al-Wahhāb) Žepčak Ilhamija. Much has been written about him in the Bosnian literature, although few details of his life …