O ISLAMIZACIJI U SJEVEROISTOČNOJ BOSNI U XV I XVI VIJEKU
ON CONVERSION INTO ISLAM IN NORTH-EAST BOSNIA IN 15th AND 16th CENTURY

Summary/Abstract: Conversion into Islam in general is anyway an important historical question, sufficiently illuminated so far. From the studies that had been published by now, and which dealt only with Bosnia and Hercegovina, one could notice several view points. These have to do with the begining, intensity, motives and circumstances under which this process developed, as well as ethnical and confesional structure of the population, that was converted to Islam. To illuminate the question in its entirety it was necessary in our oppinion to do some research into the individual narrow areas, which are also limited terms of time. Therefore, this study deals only with this problem in the region of the North - East Bosnia and a part of the Bosnian Posavina, including the period till the end of 16ct. Examining turkish inventory defters which are the most important source and have not been utilized so far in the papers at all, one can say that from our view point the Moslems of Bosnia and Hercegovina accepted Islam from the Bogumils, as well as some stand points after which mainly Catholics accepted Islam, should be corrected.

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