Proceedings of the International Symposium on Islamic Civilisation in the Balkans: Sofia, April 21-23, 2000

The International Symposium on Islamic Civilization in the Balkans was organized by IRCICA in cooperation with the Institute of Higher Islamic Studies (Sofia), the Institute of Balkan Studies-Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (Sofia), Centre of Oriental Languages andCultures (Sofia University), International Centrefor MinorityStudiesandIntercultural Relations (IMIR) (Sofia)andFoundation for Research on Islamic History, ArtandCulture(IRCICA) (İstanbul). A totalof86papers werepresented.Thepapers, subsequently revisedby theirauthors,arepublishedin twoseparatevolumes:onefor thosein Turkish and another for those in English and Bulgarian.