An impressive work on global Muslim solidarity in the Balkans across different political regimes. Karcics pioneering work provides not only new insights into religiously informed ties across states but also offers a globalized account of the region and its transcontinental entanglements with other parts of the (Muslim) world. Harun Karcics Balkan Muslims and the Middle East brilliantly reveals the ongoing resonance of cross-regional solidarities forged during and immediately following the Cold War. A must read for scholars and students of both international history and foreign affairs seeking to understand the new global order taking shape before our eyes. * Peter Mandaville, Dr, George Mason University, United States of America * Harun Karcics work is a paradigmatic study of the shifting (geo)political orientations of Muslim communities in the Western Balkans. It offers a long-needed remedy to decades of essentialist and Orientalist accounts of the politics in the regions Muslim-majority societies. And owing to Karcics use of a vast array of primary source documents from the region, no significant future scholarship on Muslim politics and identity in the Western Balkans or Southeastern Europe will be possible without reference to his contributions in this volume. * Jasmin Mujanovic, Dr, New Lines Institute for Strategy and Policy, USA * "Karcics work is deeply researched and packed with forgotten historical details about Balkan Muslim communities. He skilfully explains big topics like Titos ties to Nasser, but also elucidates finer points, such as how Muslims in Yugoslavia interacted with the wider Arab world during the Cold War. This book is invaluable to scholars, journalists and diplomats interested in learning more about the history of Bosniak Muslims; from late Ottoman times and the breakdown of Yugoslavia, to contemporary Irans ties to Muslim communities here" * Sean Matthews, Journalist, Middle East Eye, Greece *
