Islam in the Balkans. Religion and Society between Europe and the Arab World

Harry T. Norris

 

    - Index of terms
    - Index of places
    - Index of persons and nationalities

 

 

INDEX OF TERMS

(Specific Ṣūfī orders are entered separately under ṭuruq)

 

Abdālān, 87, 89, 124, 154, 155, 213, 268

Adhkār, see dhikr

Aljamiado (Albanian and Serbo-Croat literature in Arabic script), 66-8, 107-9, 114, 246-85

‘Āshūrā’, xiii, 171-4, 187

Awrād, see wird

Ayini-Cem (Baktāshī ritual), xiii 94

 

Bogomilism (see also Patarins), xiii, xiiv, 17-8, 23, 43-5, 265

 

dancing, 87, 103, 117, 273

Devshirme (boy tribute), 46, 202

Dhikr (zikr), xxi, 87, 102-4, 109, 113-7, 186, 245, 273

Druze, 4, 91, 229

 

fundamentalism (Serbian view), 257-8, 277-8, 294-7

 

Ḥadīth, 55, 77, 82, 172

Ḥājj, 92-4, 135, 199, 214, 220, 272-3

Ḥanafī (law school of Abū Ḥanīfa), 10, 203-4, 245

Ḥanbalī (law school of Ibn Ḥanbal), 105

Ḥaqīqa (Ṣūfī term for ‘ultimate reality’) 95, 121, 219

Ḥurūfiyya, xiv, 85, 88-90, 97, 115-6,123, 135, 154, 164-5, 168, 174, 185, 195, 200-1, 229, 266, 267, 271; see also Faḍlallāh al-Astarābādī

 

Ijāza (licence to teach in Ṣūfī orders), 121, 161, 189, 220-1, 245

Ismā‘ilīs (Carmathians), 87, 89, 145, 164, 214

 

Janissaries, xv, 46, 93, 124, 164, 201-5

 

Kadicevci movement (in Bosnia), 115

Khalīfa (Caliphate, etc.), xiv, 19-20, 93, 97, 106, 113, 124, 144, 175, 182-4, 188, 219, 222, 223

Khalwa (Ṣūfīsolitary retreat), xiv, 83, 113

Khirqa (Ṣūfī livery), 219

Kizilbaș (Qyzyl Bāsh), 4, 88, 90, 98-100, 174, 177, 185, 257

 

libraries (of Oriental books), 54, 57, 105 246

 

Madrasa, xv, 54-7, 68, 76, 96, 155, 189, 197, 227

Ma‘rifa (gnosis), 95, 121

Matem (Ma’tam), xvi, 70, 94, 180-1

Mawlid (Mawlūd), xvi, 65, 70-1, 207

mosques: in Albania, 56, 72, 76; Bosnia and Hercegovina, 51-6; Kosovo, 52-6, 273-5; Macedonia, 50-6

Murīd (aspirant on the Ṣūfī path), 113

 

Nūr Muḥammadī (divine light of Muḥammad), 95, 185-6, 193

Nuṣayris (Syrian ‘Alawites), 4, 91, 98-9

 

One Thousand and One Nights, 64, 65-7, 80, 150, 211, 231-3

 

Patarins (Bosnian Bogomils), xvi, 18

Paulicians, xvii, 17-8, 44, 265

 

Qur’ān, xv, 17, 28, 54, 58, 62, 77, 82, 98, 116, 135, 154, 172-5, 183, 190, 200, 210-1, 218, 228, 248, 255-6, 273, 279

Quṭb (‘axis of the age’, or ‘pole of the saints’), 215, 217, 222

 

al-Risāla al-Aḥmadiyya, 91-3, 171-4, 213-4, 217-27; see also Shaykh Sirrī Bābā

 

Samā’, 87, 108

 

299

 

 

300

 

Sharī’a (canonic law), xix, 95, 116, 121, 219, 272, 296

Shī‘ītes, 72, 89, 96, 138, 168, 178-80, 181, 212, 240

 

Tekkes (Ṣūfī chapels, Arabic, takiyya), xix, 19, 51, 54, 68, 73, 94, 98, 101, 103-5, 108, 110, 114-5, 122, 126-30, 133-6, 160-2, 166, 173, 176, 181, 189-91, 209, 211-26, 239, 243, 277

 

Ṭuruq (Ṣūfī order): 83, 90, 93, 100, 105; Ahmadiyya, 229-30; Baktāshiyya, 19, 51, 73, 88-100, 110-112, 116, 118, 123-37, 146-56, 162-177, 182-195, 201, 204, 209, 211-27, 229, 238-41, 248, 264, 266, 271, 278; Gulshëniyya, 201; Ḥamzawiyya (Bayrāmiyya), 117-20; Ḥayātiyya, 112; Khalwatiyya (Halvetiya), 54, 83, 101, 111-2, 126, 189-90, 199, 200, 272; Malāmiyya (Mālamatiyya), 87, 115-23, 189-90, 227-8, 266, 272; Malāmiyya Nūriyya (see Muḥammad Nūr al-‘Arabī), 120-1, 190; Maudawiyya (Mevleviya), 101, 109-11, 205, 231; Naqshbandiyya, 51, 89, 101, 112-6, 197, 227, 272; Nasīmiyya, 200, 266, 277; Qādiriyya, 73, 101, 103-9, 155, 200, 217, 272; Rifā‘iyya, 51, 101, 122-3, 200, 227, 272; Sa‘diyya (Sadi), 54, 244-5, 272; Shādhiliyya, 100, 155, 227; Tijāniyya, 101, 121-2; Yasaviyya (Yasawiyya), 87-90, 92, 95, 112, 151, 153

 

Waḥdat al-Wujūd (Oneness of Being), xx, 83, 95, 109, 111, 136, 165, 194-5, 277

Waqf (Vakuf), xx, 46, 50, 57, 102, 134

Wird (awrād), 94

 

Zāwiya, xx, 50, 101-2, 110, 131, 213

 

 

INDEX OF PLACES

 

Ada Qal‘a, 271

Albania, 31-7, 40, 43-4, 47-8, 54, 61, 63, 66, 97, 110, 124, 125, 127-38, 141, 144, 155-9, 161-95, 218, 231-43, 276, 279

Al-Andalus (Moorish Spain), 19, 28-9, 59, 83, 139, 143, 145, 154, 163

Algiers, 201-5

Asia Minor, 13, 18-9, 38, 44, 59, 88, 91-2, 96, 97, 116-7, 121, 144, 154, 162, 174, 205, 219, 222, 231, 244, 268-9

Athos, 20

 

Babadag, 152-5

Baghdād, 57, 105-6, 139, 144, 175-8, 211, 223, 272

Banja Luka, 54

Basra, 83, 144, 176, 180

Belgrade, 5, 31, 42, 56, 120, 124, 163, 244, 258, 294-7

Berat, 68, 70, 75, 191, 231, 247

Bihać, 52

Bitolj (Monastir), 49-57, 125, 161, 197, 248, 264

Bosnia and Hercegovina, 17, 23-5, 43-60, 65, 76, 99, 100-118, 143, 146, 157-60, 199, 211, 254-6, 275

Bulgaria, 12, 17, 20-3, 26-7, 49, 99, 122-3, 134, 145-7, 148, 151, 155, 191, 257, 258, 261, 275, 279

 

Cairo, 23-5, 57, 78-81, 119, 123, 139, 173, 191, 200-1, 208-31, 244, 254, 266-7, 272

Central Asia, 82-138, 140, 146, 151, 197, 296

Circassia, 139-42

 

 

301

 

Constantinople (Istanbul), 12, 13, 18, 21, 26, 31, 33, 39, 42, 57, 63, 68, 93, 112-6, 131, 140-1, 147-8, 163, 176, 197, 207, 219, 220, 227-8, 235, 247, 248, 252, 262, 263, 267, 270

Corfu, 98, 151, 156, 235

Crete, 202, 135, 226

 

Dalmatia, 17, 19, 40, 142, 145, 259, 261

Danube, 14, 15, 26-8, 147, 152-3

Dasht Qipchāq, 152

Deli Orman, 99, 100 147-8

Dimotika, 125

Djakova (Dakovica, Gjakova), 54, 105-7, 190

Dobrudja, 146-55, 257, 269

Dubrovnik (Ragusa), 22, 24-6, 31, 197, 265

Durballi Sulṭān, 125, 129, 135-6

 

Elbasan, 56, 125-6, 135, 191, 197, 247

Epirus, 15, 19, 35, 137, 231

 

Foča, 52, 57

Frashër, 73, 76, 125, 162-95

 

Georgia, 151, 152

Gjirokastër, 56, 125, 129, 133, 135, 366, 191, 218-20, 231, 241, 247

 

Hungary, 7, 26-31, 58, 153, 154, 254, 257, 260, 295

 

Illyricum, 11, 14

Ioannina (Janina), 162, 231, 234-5, 236-9

 

Kalagria (Kiligra), 151-2, 155

Karbalī, 73, 96, 98, 170-181, 211, 214, 219, 223, 241

Kavalla, 196, 208, 226

Khurāsān, 87, 89, 113, 132

Kičevo, 112

Kiseljak, 159

Korçë, 56, 68, 72, 125, 128, 166, 197

Kosovo, 8, 16, 32, 43, 47, 49, 51, 54, 57, 63, 76, 99, 103, 106-7, 111, 120 125, 134, 136, 145, 164, 188-90, 211, 227-30, 244, 248, 254, 256, 258-63, 272-7

Krajina, 159

Krujë (Aq Hisar), 35, 36, 56, 77, 85, 125-37, 141, 155-7, 164, 167-8, 191, 239, 253

Kūfa, 171, 174-5, 183-4

 

Lebanon, 37, 143-4, 207, 243, 246, 249-52, 254

Leskovicu, 76, 112, 218, 221-2

 

Macedonia, 15, 32, 35, 38, 43, 47, 49, 50, 57, 101, 105, 111-2, 114, 120, 122-3, 128, 134, 137, 146, 196, 200-1, 208, 248, 254, 257, 260, 268, 275-7

Moldavia, 67, 142, 152-3, 154, 269

Montenegro, 62

Mostar, 52, 57, 60, 110, 199, 255

 

Najaf, 92, 175-6, 215, 219, 223

North Africa (Maghrib), 22, 24-5, 28-9, 57, 142-3, 196, 201-8, 238, 256, 296

Novi Pazar, 49, 54

 

Ohrid, 32, 35, 54, 98, 235

 

Parga, 235, 239

Patras, 19

Peć (Pejë), 49, 146

Plovdiv, 258

Prishtinë, 54, 136, 190, 222, 263, 272

Prizren, 54, 105, 111, 120, 161, 163, 164, 166, 189

 

Rhodes, 201, 257

Rogatica, 102

Romania, 66-7, 148-55, 191, 265-71

Rozafat castle, 61-2

 

Sarajevo, 52-4, 57, 61, 101-110, 114 118-9, 158-60, 199, 211, 256, 277, 296

Shkodër (Shkodra), 55, 61-2, 76, 141, 193, 218-9, 234, 236-7, 247

Skopje (Uskiip), 43, 50-1, 54, 57, 105, 120-1, 161, 197

Sofia, 33, 108, 197, 237

Srebrenica, 52

Sveti Naum, 98, 146

Syria, 61, 111, 139, 142, 243-52

 

 

302

 

Tepelenë, 162, 231-43

Tetova (Kalkandelen), 32, 55, 122, 134, 191, 248

Thessalonica, 11, 31, 137, 169, 196, 203, 223, 244, 264

Thessaly, 15, 101, 129, 131, 135, 137, 205, 234

Thrace, 13, 17-8, 21, 47, 101, 154, 201, 257

Tirane, 56, 71, 73, 77-8, 121, 139, 191, 194

Tomor, 98, 190-2, 210

Travnik, 52

 

Ulcinj, 206-8

Ustikolina (between Goražde and Rogatica), 46

Uzice, 54, 60, 199

 

Via Egnatia, 11, 31-4

 

Wallachia, xix, 67, 142, 153, 269, 270-1

 

Yemen, 140, 144, 228, 229, 230

Yenice Vardar, 114, 196, 201

 

Zagreb, 9, 295

Zvornik, 109, 117

 

 

INDEX OF PERSONS AND NATIONALITIES

 

Abū Ḥamid al-Gharnāṭī (Muḥammad b. ‘Abd al Raḥīm), 28-30, 139

Aḥmad b. Idrīs, 229

‘Alī b. Abī Ṭālib, 86, 96-7, 113, 129, 136, 145, 163, 169-86, 192, 240-1, 264, 272

‘Alī Pasha of Tepelenë, 127, 131, 162, 191, 231-43

Andrić, Ivo, xvi, 6, 7, 14, 46

Anghelescu, M., xi, 66, 280

‘Antar b. Shaddād, 37, 39, 40-2, 249-50, 263

Arnaut, 33-7, 138-146, 141-2, 269

‘Arūj, 201

Avars, 11, 381

 

Babinger, F. von, 99, 124-6, 131-4, 267, 280

Badr al-Dīn (Maḥmūd b. Isrā’īl b. ‘Abd al-‘Azīz), 266-68

Ḥājjī Baktāsh al-Khurāsānī, 89, 90-4, 124, 129, 136, 151, 153, 165-6, 169, 185, 204, 219

Balić, Smail, 2, 46, 60, 281, 292

Bālim Sulṭān, 93, 134, 177-8

Baṭṭāl Ghāzī al-Anṭākī, 19, 37, 150, 263

Baybars (Mamlūk Sulṭān), 214-5

Bohemund, 35, 38-40

Božović, Rade, xi, 41-2, 64, 260

Bulgars, 19, 20-3, 26, 35, 130-40, 257

Byron, Lord, v, 236

 

Çajupi (Andon Zako), 209-10

Ćehajić, Džemal, xi, 101-2, 110, 118, 122, 124, 281

Circassians, 140

Copts, 21

Croats, 11, 15, 23, 41

 

Degrand, A., 129, 155

Dinë (Spiro), 209, 225

Djerzelez Aliya (see Gjerg Elez Alia)

Durham, M. Edith, 4, 5, 48-9, 278

 

Edhem Bey (Etehem Beut), 77, 78

Evliya Çelebi, 68, 108, 110, 123-6, 132, 215, 265-6

 

Faḍlallāh al-Ḥurūfī al-Astarābādī, 164, 165, 200, 266

Fāṭima, 65, 97, 169, 173, 178-9, 183-4, 192

Fine, John, 18, 44-5, 264, 283

 

 

303

 

Frashëri, Abdul, 164, 187

Frashëri, Dalip, 171, 180, 181, 191

Frashëri, Naim, 95, 162-92, 210

Frashëri, Sami, 76, 163, 166, 188, 247

Frashëri Shahih, 171, 181, 191

Fuḍūlī (Muḥammad b. Sulaymān), 177-82, 191

 

Gagaouzes, 147-8

Ghassān (Banū), 142-2, 248-50

Gjerg Elez Alia, 64, 155-60

Goha, (Juha), 65

Grégoire, Henri, 31, 33, 38, 283

Guiscard (Robert), 31, 33, 35, 38-9, 40

Gypsy (Romas), 42, 66-7, 257

 

Ḥabīb al-Ṣaqlabī, 23

Hadžić (Osman Nuri), 256

Ḥāfiẓ ‘Alī’ Ulcinaku, 207

Halil, 64, 139, 156

Ḥallāj, 83, 183, 200

Ḥāmid Gjylbegaj, 192-95

Ḥamza (al-Busnawī), 117-20

Handžic (Mehmed), 211

Ḥasan b. ‘Alī b. Abī Ṭālib, 65, 98, 99, 169, 171-2, 176-9, 241

Ḥasan Kāfī b. Ṭurkhān al-Āqḥiṣārī, 59, 118

Hasluck, F.W., 1, 39, 129, 136, 153-6, 169-70, 174, 239

Hasluck, M., 96, 154, 279, 284

Ḥayātī (Shaykh Muḥammad), 112

Heraclius, 11

Hobhouse, J.C. (Lord Broughton), 234-6

Hoxha (Enver), 1, 161, 192, 278-279

Hughes, Rev. Thomas Smart, 231-2, 242

Huns, 15, 38

Ḥusayn b. ‘Alī b. Abī Ṭālib, 65, 98, 99, 169-84, 192

Husrev Beg (Ghāzī), 52-7, 101, 159

 

Ibn (al-) ‘Arabī (Muḥyi’l-Dīn), 82, 111, 154, 165, 183, 194, 229, 267, 277

Ibn Baṭṭūṭa (Abū ‘Abdallāh Muḥammad), 146-7, 213

Ibrāhīm b. Taymūrkhān b. Ḥamza, 119-20

Idrīsī (Abū ‘Abdallāh Muḥammad, al-), 31-5, 37

‘Īsā Beg, 52-3, 101-2

Iqbāl, Muḥammad (Urdu poet), 163

Izetbegović (Alija, President of Bosnia and Hercogovina), 82, 196, 256

 

Jesus, 44, 98, 99, 154, 166, 169, 171-2, 193-4, 264, 269

Jīlānī (‘Abd al-Qādir al-), 105, 109, 229, 272

Jujo, (Shaykh Muṣṭafā b. Yūsuf al-Mūstārī Ayyūbī-Zade, Ejubović), 59

 

Kadizade, 115

Kajgusez ‘Abdallāh al-Maghāwirī, 209, 212-16, 221

Kaleši (Kaleshi), Ḥasan, 2, 49-50, 61-5, 155-6, 163

Kamberi (Ḥasan Zyko), 70, 71, 78

Kapetanović (Ljubušak), 225-6

Karadjoz (Karā-Göz) Beg, 57

Kasheri (Ymer Muṣṭafā), 73

Kay Kā’ūs 11, 147, 267

Khalqī (Muṣṭafā), 245-6

Khayyām (‘Umar al-), 224-5

Khayr al-Dīn Barbarossa, 201, 205

Khazars, 26, 28

Khwārizmians, 26-31, 145

Kissling, Hans-Joachim, 86, 126-7, 285

Kyçyku (Muhamet, Çami), 78-81

 

Lazar (Prince of Serbia), 259-63

Luṭfī Bābā (Shaykh Muḥammad), 218-224

Luṭfī al-Bashārizī (‘Umar), 227-31

 

Macarius (Patriarch of Antioch), 269-70

Magyars, 27-8, 140, 261

Maliqi (Hilmi), 121, 189, 190

Manfred Hohenstaufen, 36, 41

Manṣūr Efendi, 145, 232-3

Marko, 42, 157

Ma‘rūf al-Arnā’uṭ, 249-52

Maslama b ‘Abd al-Malik, 19

Mas‘ūdī (‘Alī b. al-Ḥusayn al-), 15, 21

Mesihi, 62

Mircea (the Old), 268

Mitko (Thimi), (1820-90), 209

 

 

304

 

Mu‘āwiya (Umayyad Caliph), 72, 73, 124, 144, 175, 182-4, 241

Mūfākū, Muḥammad (al-Arnā’ūṭ), xii, 42, 56, 61, 64, 67-73, 77-81, 104-7, 121, 124, 161-2, 170-1, 181, 186-7, 190, 206-7, 225, 227-8, 239-40, 245-6, 287, 294-7

Muḥammad ‘Alī (Ruler of Egypt), 79, 208-9, 231

Muḥammad Nūr al-‘Arabī (Arap Hodža), 120, 189

Muḥammad (the Prophet), 4-5, 17, 71, 86, 96-99, 113, 119, 136, 139-40, 149, 154, 169, 172, 173, 180, 182, 185-6, 193, 241, 249-52

Mujo, 64, 138, 156

Murād (Sulṭān), 259-63 268

 

Naqshaband (Bahā’ al-Dīn), 112

Nasibī, Ṭāhir Baba, 73, 162, 180, 191

Nasīmī (Nesimi), 164-5, 194-5, 200, 229, 266, 277

Nasruddin (Khoja), 65

Negroes, 30, 31, 42, 143, 206, 238, 270

Nezim (Frakulla), 68-70, 75, 78, 247

Noli (Fan), 167, 224-5

 

Pechenegs, 12, 26-31, 38, 145, 147

Pomaks, xvii, xviii, 257

 

Qadhdhāfī (Mu‘ammar al-, Gadafi), 296

Qā’imī Bābā (Hasan), 107-9

Qānṣawh al-Ghawrī, 25-6, 197-8, 200

 

Rūmī (Aḥmad), 224-7

Rexhebi, Bābā, xii, xiv, 4, 83, 86, 92-6, 129, 136-7, 177, 191, 194, 212, 218, 289

Rūmī (Jalāl al-Dīn), 58, 83, 109, 110, 165, 277

Runciman, Steven, 18, 278-9

 

Ṣaqāliba, 12-3, 19, 22, 143

Sari Saltik, 67, 124, 130, 132-3, 136, 146-55, 191, 265, 267

Serbs, 11, 15, 38, 41-2, 142, 159, 205, 257-63, 294-7

Sersem ‘Alī Dedje, 55, 134, 187

Shabbetai Zevi, 207

Shamīmī Bābā (Shaykh Mīmī), 125, 131, 133, 136, 187, 230, 239-40

Simeon (Tsar of Bulgaria), 20-1

Sirrī Bābā (Aḥmad), 91-3, 112-3, 171-4, 213, 217-27

Skanderbeg (Skënderbeu, Gjergj Kastrioti), 61, 157, 166-8, 181-2, 242, 250-3, 276

Sulejmān Naibi (Sulejmān Ramazani), 70, 78

 

Ṭāhir Efendi Jakova Boshnjaku (Efendi i Madh), 76

Tatars, 27, 137, 152-4, 257, 169

Thābit of Uziče, 60

Thābit Nu‘mān Ferizaj, 246-7

Thopias (Albanian house), 36-7, 127, 141

Tomori (‘Alī Bābā), 190-2, 209-10

 

‘Ulj ‘Alī, 205-6

‘Umar al-Khalwatī, 111

Uṣūlī (of Yenice Vardar), 195, 197

 

Wāṣā Pasha, 143-4

 

Yaḥyā Beg (Dukagjin), 62-4, 69, 79, 229

Yāqūt b. ‘Abdallāh al-Ḥamawī al-Rūmī, 10, 31

Yasawī (Aḥmad), 89-90

Yazīd, 99, 124, 175, 184, 241

Yūsuf and Zulaykhā’, 63, 65, 79, 211, and passim

 

Zog I, King of Albania, 224

 

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