Agents of Faith in the Ottoman Balkans - Personal Dimensions

Rossitsa Gradeva, Persons, Practices, and Institutions: Individual Lives and the Fabric of the Ottoman World. Introduction

I. Viziers, Lawyers, Teachers, and Sufis.

1. Tijana Krstić, A Catechizing Grand Vizier—Lütfi Pasha (d. 1562/63) and the Politics of Sunni Confession Building in the Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Empire.
2. Antonis Anastasopoulos & Marinos Sariyannis, Serdarzade Mehmed Efendi: a naib of many capacities in late-seventeenth-century Kandiye.
3. Tatjana Paić-Vukić, Salih Mufti-zade of the Bosnian Town of Travnik: A Life Revealed by a Personal Notebook.
4. Margarita Dobreva, The Rüşdiyye Mission, Curriculum and Teachers (1850s – 1870s).
5. Nevena Gramatikova, Muhyiddin Abdal – A Spiritual Preacher of the Alevi-Bektaşi Community in the Eastern Balkans under the Ottomans.
6. Aziz Nazmi Shakir, Filibeli Ahmed Hilmi: An Ottoman Author’s Life and Depths of Imagination as Reached in His Sufi Masterpiece A‘mâq-ı Khayâl.

II. Waqfs and Donors.

1. Kayhan Orbay and Özge Aslanmirza, Institutional Propagation of Imperial Waqfs in the Rural Balkans, Fifteenth to Nineteenth Centuries.
2. Milena Petkova, Christians among Muslims: Еthno-demographic Structure of the Sultan Waqf Villages of Hristene and Kortene in Eastern Upper Thrace, Fifteenth – Seventeenth Centuries.
3. Paulina Andonova, Faith and Wealth: Sofu Mehmed Paşa as a Waqf Donor in Sofia, sixteenth to early nineteenth century.
4. Maria Shusharova, The Waqf of Yedekçi Mehmed Paşa in the District of Hezargrad (Eighteenth Century) – between Piety and Abuse.
5. Stoyanka Kenderova, Le Personnage du Donateur de Livres à la Bibliothèque d’Osman Pazvantoğlu à Vidin.
6. Svetla Ianeva, The Nineteenth-Century Rumelian Orthodox Tax-Farmer as Donor.

III. Priests and Monks, Converts to Islam and Neomartyrs.

1. Stefka Parveva, Economic Aspects of the Portrait of the Seventeenth-Century Rumelian Village Priest.
2. Ognjen Krešić, An Eighteenth-Century Orthodox Monk in the Ottoman Balkans: The Monks of the Hilandar Monastery.
3. Vjeran Kursar, Personality of a Bosnian Franciscan: Life and Work of Bonaventura (Bono) Benić (1708-1785).
4. Phokion Kotzageorgis, Becoming Rich in a Monastery: The Case of Anthimos Komninos (end of eighteenth - beginning of nineteenth century).
5. Stefan Dimitrov, Integration of the Converts within the Social and Professional Structure of the Muslim Community in Sixteenth-century Edirne.
6. †Olga Todorova “Virgin in a Dungeon”: Female Neomartyrdom under Ottoman Rule – Historical Realia, Literary and Folklore Fictions (The Case of St Zlata of Meglen).