Osmanlı Devletinin XIV.-XVI yüzyıllarındaki islamiyetin Arnavut topraklarına yayılması

This dissertation provides a detailed picture of the religious situation in Albanian lands before the Ottoman conquest and analyzes the conditions upon the establishment of Ottoman rale and the initial stages of Islam/Islamization in that area. A complex approach is necessary to find the roots and to understand the phenomenon of the massive conversion of Albanians to Islam throughout the Ottoman period. The lack of a "national" church, the weak organisation of the Christian churches after the Ottoman conquest, and the establishment of Ottoman rule with a great measure of finality, were the most important factors which caused the gradual process of massive conversion to Islam. Keywords: Albanian, Islam, Christianity, conversion