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Islam and nationhood in Bosnia-Herzegovina : surviving empires / Xavier Bougarel ; translated by Christopher Mobley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bougarel, Xavier, author.
- Series:
- Islam of the global West.
- Islam of the global West
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cultural pluralism--Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- Cultural pluralism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (281 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- London : Bloomsbury, 2018.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- Based on substantial fieldwork and thorough knowledge of written sources, Xavier Bougarel offers an innovative analysis of the post-Ottoman and post-Communist history of Bosnian Muslims. Islam and Nationhood in Bosnia-Herzegovina explores little-known aspects of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, unravels the paradoxes of Bosniak national identity, and retraces the transformations of Bosnian Islam from the end of the Ottoman period to today. It offers fresh perspectives on the wars and post-war periods of the Yugoslav space, the forming of national identities and the strength of imperial legacies in Eastern Europe, and Islam's presence in Europe. The question of how Islam is tied to national identity still divides Bosnian Muslims. Islam and Nationhood in Bosnia-Herzegovina places the history of ties between Islam and politics in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the larger global context of Bosnian Muslims relations both with the umma (the global Muslim community) and Europe from the late 19th century to the present and is a vital contribution to research on Islam in the West.
- Contents:
- The origins of national indetermination (1878-1914)
- The disillusions of Yugoslavism (1914-1941)
- A winding search for security (1941-1945)
- Emergence of the Muslim nation (1945-90)
- Caught in the mortal embrace of nationalism (1990-95)
- A Bosniak nation centred on Islam (1990-95)
- Dreams of a nation, search for an empire (1995-2013).
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781350003606
- 1350003603
- 9781350003613
- 1350003611
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