Институтција амана и примање подаништва у Османском царству: пример сремских манастира 1693-1696
The Institute of Aman and the Acceptance of Submission in the Ottoman Empire: the Example of Monasteries in Srem 1693-1696

Summary/Abstract: Aman (mercy, quarter) could be granted to individuals or groups in a variety of occasions and under different conditions. A distinct type of amanname guaranteed mercy and protection to the non-Muslim inhabitants of newlyconquered territories. During the War of the Holy League, between 1693 and 1696, a few monasteries in the region of Srem repeatedly pleaded with the Ottoman authorities for aman. Documents known as amannames are central to understanding the legal status of non-Muslims in the Ottoman territory that had been temporarily held by the enemy during a war. In legal terms, there was no distinction between such territories, and their inhabitants, and those newly-conquered. Aman covered only those portions of the population who had accepted to "submit to Muslims" (ehl-i I . slama mütaba#at), i.e. had accepted the status of zimm2 - s (zimmet k.abul e. düb) thereby officially becoming "subjects", i.e. "re aya" (ra#iyyet k.abul e. düb) of the Ottoman state. Therefore the meaning and use of all terms relevant to understanding the legal status of such populations has been analyzed in the context of the Shari'ah. In order to clarify the ways in which the term aman was used by the Ottomans and to remove some possible uncertainties, the text has pointed to a few of its specific meanings such as the "letter of protection" or a sense almost synonymous to that of a peace treaty. Attention has also been drawn to the little studied use of the term re#~y~ to denote a population's citizenship or allegiance to a state.

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