As a Slavic-speaking religious and ethnic “Other” living just a stone’s throw from the symbolic heart of the continent, the Muslims of Bosnia and Herzegovina have long occupied a liminal space in the European imagination. To a significant degree, the wider representations and perceptions of this population can be traced to the reports of Central European—and especially Habsburg—diplomats, scholars, journalists, tourists, and other observers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This volume assembles contributions from historians, anthropologists, political scientists, and literary scholars to examine the political, social, and discursive dimensions of Bosnian Muslims’ encounters with the West since the nineteenth century.
As a Slavic-speaking religious and ethnic “Other” living just a stone’s throw from the symbolic heart of the continent, the Muslim peoples of Bosnia and Herzegovina have long occupied a liminal space in the European imagination. This volume assembles contributions from historians, anthropologists, political scientists, and literary scholars to examine the political, social, and discursive dimensions of Bosnian Muslims’ encounter with the West.
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With a polyphonic and intellectually sophisticated methodology, Imagining Bosnian Muslims in Central Europe offers the reader a series of fascinating case studies exploring the ways Central European intellectuals, media figures, artists and politicians have represented Bosnian Muslims. Fabio Giomi, Center for Turkish, Ottoman, Balkan and Central Asian Studies, CNRS Paris
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Acknowledgments
Introduction
Frantiek ístek
Chapter
1. The Turkish Threat and Early Modern Central Europe: Czech
Reflections
Ladislav Hladký and Petr Stehlík
Chapter
2. The Muslims of Bosnia and Herzegovina between Millet and Nation
Boidar Jezernik
Chapter
3. Ambivalent Perceptions: Austria-Hungary, Bosnian Muslims and the
Occupation Campaign in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1878)
Martin Gabriel
Chapter
4. Sleeping Beautys Awakening: Habsburg Colonialism in Bosnia and
Herzegovina, 18781918
Clemens Ruthner
Chapter
5. The Portrayal of Muslims in Austrian-Hungarian State Primary
School Textbooks for Bosnia and Herzegovina
Oliver Peji
Chapter
6. Towards Secularity: Autonomy and Modernization of Bosnian Islamic
Institutions under Austro-Hungarian Administration
Zora Hesová
Chapter
7. Under the Slavic Crescent: Representations of Bosnian Muslims in
Czech Literature, Travelogues and Memoirs, 18781918
Frantiek ístek
Chapter
8. Divided Identities in the Bosnian Narratives of Vjenceslav Novak
and Rebecca West
Charles Sabatos
Chapter
9. Austronostalgia and Bosnian Muslims in the Work of Croatian
Anthropologist Vera Stein Erlich
Bojan Baskar
Chapter
10. The Serbian Proverb Poturica gori od Turina (A Turk-Convert is
Worse Than a Turk): Stigmatizer and Figure of Speech
Marija Mandi
Chapter
11. From Brothers to Others? Changing Images of Bosnian Muslims in
(Post-)Yugoslav Slovenia
Alenka Bartulovi
Chapter
12. Exploring Religious Views among Young People of Bosnian Muslim
Origin in Berlin
Aldina emernica
Chapter
13. The West, the Balkans and the In-Between: Bosnian Muslims
Representing a European Islam
Merima ehagi
Conclusion
Frantiek ístek
Index
Frantiek ístek is a Research Fellow at the Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences and an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences at Charles University in Prague.
