To browse Academia. The transformation of a small emirate, situated on the south-eastern the border of the Byzantine state, into the powerful Ottoman empire, which succeeded that of Byzantium and exerted a powerful impact on the Western Christian world for several centuries constitutes a phenomenon with a variety of aspects.
The theories of the great historians M. Koprulu and P. Wittek, both put forward in the s, have recently been challenged. On the other hand, recent findings, and subsequent studies have provoked further discussions with new arguments and provided additional explanations. The role of the dervishes in the formation of the Ottoman emirate has been stressed. Coins have been found which shed new light on the humble beginnings of the fourteenth-century Turkish emirs.
Texts relating to religion and the holy war have been discovered. Cadasters or land censuses have clarified early institutions. Thus a re-examination of the history of the emirate which was to develop into an empire became a desideratum. International Journal of Turkish Studies, Vol. Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, Throughout the Islamic world those claiming descent from the Prophet Muhammad T.
Byzantium and the Emergence of Muslim-Turkish Anatolia, ca. The presence of the dervish orders in the Balkans is directly associated with their participation in the Ottoman expeditions and their relation to the janissaries.
The provincial governors supported them by many means tax privileges, land for erecting tekkes. After the capture of Thessaly at the end of the 14th-beginning of the 15th century, Thessaly was a peripheral semi-autonomous region at the borders of the Ottoman Empire. Taking into consideration the archival evidence and the preserved monuments, this paper focuses on the dynamic role the dervish orders played in the emergence of the Ottoman and Islamic character of the towns and countryside of Thessaly.
