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Seven Muslim saints from Bulgaria

Bojidar Aleksiev

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Year of Publication: 2012

Cover Type: Soft

Category: Folklore

Edition: n/a

Pages: 251

Format: n/a

Language: Bulgarian

Summary

The book is dedicated to one of the main problems in the still poorly studied traditional culture of the heterodox Muslim Turks (Kizylbashi, Aliani) in Bulgaria. Based on various sources – hagiographic and historical works, oral traditions and data from the ritual – the study presents seven of the most revered Muslim heterodox saints in the past and today. Along with discovering and emphasizing the individual traits in each image, the author also pays attention to the messages of the legendary texts, the fruit of the centuries-old striving of the community to build its collective identity in relation to other ethnic and religious groups and to the need to constantly rethink the nature-man-society relationships. One of the chapters is dedicated to Kiz Ana Sultan – a female image, which is relatively rare in Muslim hagiography. The book is of interest to ethnologists, folklorists, cultural historians, as well as to every intelligent reader.

Аbout The Author

• Bojidar Aleksiev: Bozhidar Alexiev graduated from the Faculty of History of Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski ”with a specialization in ethnology, then - historical ethnology and social anthropology at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) (Higher School of Social Sciences) in Toulouse, France. In 2000 he defended his doctorate and started working in the section "Balkan and Slavic Folklore" of the Institute of Folklore at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. In 2007 he received the scientific title of "Associate Professor". He is currently working at the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore with the Ethnographic Museum at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. He is a participant in many research and educational projects and has published more than 30 articles and studies on various aspects of the traditional culture of Bulgarian Muslims, heterodox Muslims in Bulgaria, as well as some contemporary issues.