Islam and Nationhood in Bosnia-Herzegovina: Surviving Empires (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781350003590)

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.

Author: Xavier Bougarel
ISBN-10: 135000359X
ISBN-13: 9781350003590
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Language: English
Published: 12/14/2017
Pages: 280
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.10w x 0.90d