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 uruq)

 

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

 

adīth, 55, 77, 82, 172

ājj, 92-4, 135, 199, 214, 220, 272-3

anafī (law school of Abū anīfa), 10, 203-4, 245

anbalī (law school of Ibn anbal), 105

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

urūfiyya, xiv, 85, 88-90, 97, 115-6,123, 135, 154, 164-5, 168, 174, 185, 195, 200-1, 229, 266, 267, 271; see also Falallāh 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 (ūfīsolitary 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

Marifa (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 ūfī path), 113

 

Nūr Muammadī (divine light of Muammad), 95, 185-6, 193

Nuayris (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

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

 

al-Risāla al-Amadiyya, 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 (ūfī 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

 

uruq (ūfī 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; amzawiyya (Bayrāmiyya), 117-20; ayātiyya, 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 Muammad 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

 

Wadat 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 Sulān, 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 amid al-Gharnāī (Muammad b. ‘Abd al Raīm), 28-30, 139

Amad b. Idrīs, 229

‘Alī b. Abī ālib, 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 (Mamūd b. Isrā’īl b. ‘Abd al-‘Azīz), 266-68

ājjī 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 Sulān, 93, 134, 177-8

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

Baybars (Mamlūk Sulān), 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

 

Falallāh al-urūfī al-Astarābādī, 164, 165, 200, 266

ima, 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

Fuūlī (Muammad 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

 

abīb al-aqlabī, 23

Hadžić (Osman Nuri), 256

āfi ‘Alī’ Ulcinaku, 207

Halil, 64, 139, 156

allāj, 83, 183, 200

āmid Gjylbegaj, 192-95

amza (al-Busnawī), 117-20

Handžic (Mehmed), 211

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

asan Kāfī b. urkhān al-Āqiārī, 59, 118

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

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

ayātī (Shaykh Muammad), 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

usayn b. ‘Alī b. Abī ālib, 65, 98, 99, 169-84, 192

Husrev Beg (Ghāzī), 52-7, 101, 159

 

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

Ibn Baṭṭūa (Abū ‘Abdallāh Muammad), 146-7, 213

Ibrāhīm b. Taymūrkhān b. amza, 119-20

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

‘Īsā Beg, 52-3, 101-2

Iqbāl, Muammad (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), asan, 2, 49-50, 61-5, 155-6, 163

Kamberi (asan 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

Lufī Bābā (Shaykh Muammad), 218-224

Lufī 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

Manūr Efendi, 145, 232-3

Marko, 42, 157

Ma‘rūf al-Arnā’u, 249-52

Maslama b ‘Abd al-Malik, 19

Mas‘ūdī (‘Alī b. al-usayn 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, Muammad (al-Arnā’ū), 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

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

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

Muammad (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 (Sulān), 259-63 268

 

Naqshaband (Bahā’ al-Dīn), 112

Nasibī, āhir 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

Qānawh al-Ghawrī, 25-6, 197-8, 200

 

Rūmī (Amad), 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

 

aqāliba, 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 (Amad), 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

 

āhir 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

Uūlī (of Yenice Vardar), 195, 197

 

ā Pasha, 143-4

 

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

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

Yasawī (Amad), 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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