Sünnet is a festival of the circumcision of boys in Turkey and other Muslim Turkic peoples,[1] such as Volga Tatars and Crimean Tatars, [2] as well as Balkan Muslims such as Bosnians, Albanians and Macedonians.[3] It is based on religion and cultural traditions. [4] Most Turkish and Balkan families have a Sünnet party for their sons in which the boy gets money and presents.
More religious families have the ceremony with an imam. The age of the circumcised boys varies, but it is generally at seven to ten years old. The operation is made by a special religious cleric, the Sünnetçi (circumciser)[5][6][7]
The type of Sünnet found among Albanians, Bosniaks, Torbesh, Xoraxane, Pomak and Gorani people, was taken up by the Balkan Muslims, when large parts of the Balkans belonged to the Ottoman Empire.[8][9][10]
References
change- ↑ "Khatna-kilish (Circumcision party)".
- ↑ "Sunnet, a Crimean Tatar rite of circumcision". 13 December 2022.
- ↑ Rotaru, Julieta (January 2021). "Considerations About the 'Turkish Gypsies' as Crypto-Muslims in Wallachia". History and Culture of Roma. Festschrift in Honour of Prof. Dr. Vesselin Popov. Isbn/Gtin 978-3-96939-071-9.
- ↑ "Circumcision | All About Turkey".
- ↑ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0277953620305864i
- ↑ "Circumcision in Turkey".
- ↑ Sahin, F.; Beyazova, U.; Aktürk, A. (2003). "Attitudes and practices regarding circumcision in Turkey". Child: Care, Health and Development. 29 (4): 275–280. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2214.2003.00342.x. PMID 12823332.
- ↑ "Amid fanfare and pain, Kosovar boys are trimmed into men". December 2015.
- ↑ Wood, Nicholas (31 July 2006). "Muslim custom of circumcision lives on among 'Bosnians' - Europe - International Herald Tribune". The New York Times.
- ↑ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/347164131_The_Rite_of_Male_Circumcision_among_the_Muslim_Population_in_the_Western_Balkans
