The Outgoing Turk Impressions of a Journey Through the Western Balkans
The book The Outgoing Turk Impressions of a Journey Through the Western Balkans was written by author H C Harry Craufuird Thomson Here you can read free online of The Outgoing Turk Impressions of a Journey Through the Western Balkans book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Outgoing Turk Impressions of a Journey Through the Western Balkans a good or bad book?
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At the time of the Turkish conquest of Bosnia the forefathers of the present Begs renegaded for the most part, from a Puritan form of Christianity, and accepted the creed of their conquerors rather than sacrifice their possessions. There is indeed no prospect of such a severe alter- native being placed before the Bosnian Begs at the present time, but there can be no doubt that even if it be for the sake of their social position, many of the Begs, if they must bow before the Giaour, will accept ...his creed. For them to-day, as at the moment of Turkish conquest, the chief anxiety is as to their position as a noblesse. Their rank secured, their future, political and religious, becomes quite a secondary consideration. " Hitherto, the Austrian policy has been to keep the Turks apart from the rest of the people, and to prevent any such religious amalgamation, rather than to encourage it. So CHANGE IN MAHOMMEDAN CUSTOMS 161 the Turks, being as they are, the most favoured portion of the community, have, at the present moment no active motive for change ; but I have endeavoured to show that the change is nevertheless coming, not from pressure from without, but from far more permanent, though more gradual, influences from within.
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