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" Akıncı - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Fodor, Pál
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English
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1059935
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ALei332
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Fodor, Pál
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Akıncı - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Fodor, Pál
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Leiden: Brill
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Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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(1,010 words)
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Akıncı ( āqıncı , lit., “those who flow”) is an Ottoman Turkish term that refers to the participants in pillaging raids into hostile territory, which, in the early Ottoman period, were known alternately as akın ( āqın , lit., “flood” or “flooding over”) or gaza ( ghazā , a religious term meaning “holy war”). Initially, most akıncı s were tribal warriors. Towards the end of the eighth/fourteenth century, following the creation of the timar ( tīmār , military fief)-holding cavalry and court mercenary troops, they were increasingly pushed into border areas, mainly in Rumeli, where they
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Islam.
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ALei332.pdf
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