Между обредната традиция и неосуфитския мистицизъм - периферният ислям на село Славеево
Between Traditional Ritualism and Neo-Sufi Mysticism - The Peripheral Islam of Slaveevo Village

Summary/Abstract: The present article deals with the private religious education in Islam implemented in the mosque of Slaveevo - a small border village in municipality of Ivaylovgrad from the very southeastern part of Bulgaria. The village is traditional Christian settlement populated up to the half of the 20th century entirely by Christian population - inheritors of Bulgarian refugees from Minor Asia. However in the years of communist rule as a result of socialistic urbanization, the border and agriculture policy of communist regime and the processes of migration the village gradually changed its population - the Christian inhabitants who had migrated to the inner part of Bulgaria were replaced by Bulgarian Mislims (Pomaks) and small number of Turks from the region of Krumovgrad. The first part of article traces the relationships of new settlers with the local Christian communities - descendents of Bulgarian refugees from Asia Minor, Turkish and Greek part of Thrace and the other native Christian groups (Orthodox Bulgarians and Albanians, Bulgarian Uniats). The second part is focused on the social and cultural characteristics of Muslim population, the process of infiltration of neosufi ideas among one small “kernel”, the specifics and effects of private religious instruction in Islam initiated by the “kernel” in question.

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