Zahide Bacı: An Example of Sufi Mysticism from Ottoman Niš
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2298/GEI1801139R УДК 39:28-05(497.11) Баџи, З.
Abstract
The paper presents an analysis of the saga about Zahide Bacı, the legacy from the Sufi
folklore which remained preserved as a part of the cultural and historical heritage of
Ottoman Niš. The saga abounds with the leitmotifs from the legends and the parables of the
holy people in Islam whose cults were honored as part of the popular religious tradition not
only in the Ottoman Empire, but also in other Muslim countries. Through comparative
insight into similar sagas, these leitmotifs are identified and their origins analyzed. In that
way, we got better insight in the opus of syncretic elements taken over in this saga from the
cultures and religions of the Near and Far East.
Key words: Zahide Bacı, dervishes, Ottoman Empire, Niš, Islam, mysticism, Sufism
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Примљено / Received: 05. 02. 2018.
Прихваћено / Accepted: 11. 04. 2018.
Treasure: Writings and Stories of Mystic Poets, Scholars & Saints, Camille
Adams Helminski, XIX–XXVIII. Boston: Shambhala.
Bojanić, D. 1983. „Niš do velikog rata 1683”. U Istorija Niša 1, gl. ur. Danica
Milić, 107–169. Niš: Gradina–Prosveta.
Brown, John P. 1868. The Dervishes. London: Trübner and Co.
Carnoy, Henry E., Jean Nicolaïdès. 1889. Traditions populaire de L’Asie Mineure.
Paris: Maisonneuve & Ch. Leclerc.
Carnoy, Henry E., Jean Nicolaïdès. 1894. Folklore de Constatinople. Paris: Emile
Lechevalier.
Çelebi, Evliyâ. 2006. Seyahatnâmesi 5. İstanbul: Yapı Kredi Yayınları.
Čelebi, Evlija. 1967. Putopis. Odlomci o jugoslavenskim zemljama. Prev. Hazim
Šabanović. Sarajevo: Svjetlost.
Ćehajić, Džemal. 1986. Derviški redovi u jugoslovenskim zemljama. Sarajevo:
Gravo-art atelje.
Denny, Frederick M. 1988. „God’s Friends: The Sanctity of Persons in Islam.” In
Sainthood: Its manifestations in World Religions, edit. Richard Kieckhefer,
George Doherty Bond, 69–95. Berkley: University of California Press.
Đorđević, Dragoljub B., Dragan Todorović. 2017. Zajde Badža. Romsko kultno
mesto. Niš–Novi Sad: Mašinski fakultet Niš–JUNIR–Prometej.
Garnett, Lucy M. 1891. The Women of Turkey and their Folk-lore. London: David
Nutt.
Hasluck, Frederick William. 1929. Christianity and Islam under the Sultans 1.
Oxford: Claredon Press.
Hasluck, Frederick William. 1929. Christianity and Islam under the Sultans 2.
Oxford: Claredon Press.
Kanitz, Felix. 1904. Das königreich Serbien und das Serbenvolk 2. Leipzig:
Bernhard Meyer.
McHugh, Neil. 1994. Holymen of the Blue Nile: The making of an Arab-Islamic
Community in the Nilotic Sudan 1500–1850. Evaston: Northwestern
University Press.
Migne, Jacques-Paul. 1858. Dictionnaire des apocryphes. Paris: Atteliers
Catholique.
Milić, Milena. 2001. „Začeci kultova ranohrišćanskih mučenika na tlu Srbije.”
Liceum 5: 9–24.
Milićević, Milan Đ. 1884. Kraljevina Srbija. Beograd: Kraljevska srpska državna
štamparija.
Molyneux-Seel, L. 1914. „A Journey in Dersim.” The Geographical Journal 44 (1):
49–68.
Nicholson, Reynold A. 1914. The mystics of Islam. London: G. Bell and Sons ltd.
Oberhummer, Roman, Heinrich Zimmerer. 1899. Durch Syrien und Kleinasien.
Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Ernst Vohsen.
Olesnički, Aleksije. 1942. „Duhovna služba bektašijskog reda u akindžijskoj
vojsci.” Vjesnik arheološkog muzeja u Zagrebu 22–23 (1): 193–206.
Redhouse, James W. 1881. The Mesnevi. London: Trübner & Co.
Schimmel, Annemarie. 1975. Mystical dimensions of Islam. Chapel Hill: The
University of North Carolina Press.
Sveto pismo. 2004. Beograd: Sveti arhijerejski sinod Srpske pravoslavne crkve.
Thibon, Jean-Jacques. 2016. „Women mystics in Medieval Islam: Practice and
transmission.” Religions 8: 64–76.
Tričković, R. 1983. „Niš u XVIII veku”. U Istorija Niša 1, gl. ur. Danica Milić,
208–242. Niš: Gradina–Prosveta.
Tričković, R. 1983. „Urbani razvitak Niša u XVIII veku”. U Istorija Niša 1, gl. ur.
Danica Milić, 243–261. Niš: Gradina–Prosveta.
Trofimova, Ksenia. 2015. „‘Holiness’ Constructed: Anonymous Saints in the
Popular Traditions of Muslim Roma Communities in the Balkans.” In The
Revival of Islam in the Balkans: from Identity to Religiosity, edit. Roy
Olivier, Aarolda Elbasani, 163–181. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Trofimova, Ksenija. 2017. Zajde Bašće: Romsko kultno mesto. Niš–Novi Sad:
Mašinski fakultet Niš–JUNIR–Prometej.
Westerlund, David. 2004. Sufism in Europe and North America. London – New
York: Routledge Curzon.
Wheler, Georg. 1682. A journey into Greece. London: William Cademan, Robert
Kettlewell and Awnsham Churchill.
Zirojević, Olga. 1971. „Smederevski sandžakbeg Ali-beg Mihaloglu.” Zbornik za
istoriju Matice srpske 3: 9–27.
Примљено / Received: 05. 02. 2018.
Прихваћено / Accepted: 11. 04. 2018.
Published
30.05.2018.
How to Cite
RANĐELOVIĆ (SERBIA), Milan.
Zahide Bacı: An Example of Sufi Mysticism from Ottoman Niš.
Bulletin of the Institute of Ethnography SASA, [S.l.], v. 66, n. 1, p. 139-154, may 2018.
ISSN 2334-8259.
Available at: <https://www.ei.sanu.ac.rs/index.php/gei/article/view/273>. Date accessed: 28 nov. 2025.
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