Dragana Amedoski

• PhD
• Istorijski institut Beograd

The paper deals with the dervish lodge (zaviye) which Mihaloğlu Alaaddin Ali Bey, one of the most influential raider commanders (akıncı uc beyi) in the Balkans, commissioned in the vicinity of Kruševac in the middle of the fifteenth century. Using Ottoman sources, the author endeavored to determine the approximate time and place of its construction...

The topic of this work are muslim pious endowments, waqfs, introduced by Ottomans on the Balkans. The most intensive Muslim endowment activity on the territory of nowadays Southeast Serbia was noticed after final Ottoman conquest in the middle of the 15th century to the end of the 16th century. The aforementioned period is also the time when the re...

The objective of this paper is inheritence right which was guaranteed to Muslim woman according to Ottoman legal system. Implementation of this law was represented with a lot of examples, primarily from the Central Balkans. Most of the used sources belongs to Record Book of Complaints (Şikâyet Defterleri) and the timeline is the 17th and 18th Centu...

The aim of this paper is to present the woman in the Central Balkans during the Ottoman period, as well as her role and position in the social life. First of all, we have discussed the established stereotypes and then, on the basis of some new and yet unused, as well as the already exploited archival sources and literature, we have shown the real s...

Gift-giving and gift-receiving, as an expressions of suzerainty, patronage and favor on one hand and gratitude and loyalty on the other hand, were deeply rooted in Ottoman society. This practice had extraordinary significance in the relation ruler - army, especially in wartime. At the end of the 16th century, during the Long War 1593-1606, a shipme...

(Tapu Tahrir Defterleri) and kânûns (legislative acts), inclusion of Serbian medieval župa Zagrlata into the Ottoman administrative and territorial organization. Paper analyzes mentioned territory from Middle Ages until the end of 16th century. During that period the majority of population in Zagrlata enjoyed the privileged vlach status related to...

POPULATION AND SETTLEMENTS IN THE PETRUS NÂHIYE IN THE 16TH CENTURY The area, to which medieval and Ottoman historical records refer as Petrus or Petruš, in its widest scope encompassed the upper valley of the Velika Morava River. After the Ottoman conquest and the establishment of new territorial- administrative organization, the vast majority of...

In the Ottoman Empire and in the whole Islamic world, the most important organizations which were founded with religious and humanitarian aim were vaqfs. Generally, vaqf comprehends building of religious edifices such as mosques, mescides, mektebs, medreses, tekkes etc. In the Balkans, a lot of papers were written in this respect. The vaqfs of Alac...

The role of the vaqf in the Ottoman Empire, as in the whole Islamic world, was quite significant, especially in a period marked by the founding of new orien­tal settlements. The first endowers in the newly-conquered lands were sultans, begs and prominent government officials. Affluent citizens also took part in endowing their cities, and women are...