Imagining Bosnian Muslims in Central Europe

Representations, Transfers and Exchanges
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-78920-774-3
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 32, 302 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 532 g

Reihe: Austrian and Habsburg Studies

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

¿Ístek, Franti¿ek

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Religionssoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

František Šístek

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

Božidar Jezernik

Chapter 3. Ambivalent Perceptions: Austria-Hungary, Bosnian Muslims and the Occupation Campaign in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1878)

Martin Gabriel

Chapter 4. Sleeping Beauty’s Awakening: Habsburg Colonialism in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1878–1918

Clemens Ruthner

Chapter 5. The Portrayal of Muslims in Austrian-Hungarian State Primary School Textbooks for Bosnia and Herzegovina

Oliver Pejic

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, 1878–1918

František Šístek

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 Turcina (A Turk-Convert is Worse Than a Turk): Stigmatizer and Figure of Speech

Marija Mandic

Chapter 11. From Brothers to Others? Changing Images of Bosnian Muslims in (Post-)Yugoslav Slovenia

Alenka Bartulovic

Chapter 12. Exploring Religious Views among Young People of Bosnian Muslim Origin in Berlin

Aldina Cemernica

Chapter 13. The West, the Balkans and the In-Between: Bosnian Muslims Representing a European Islam

Merima Šehagic

Conclusion

František Šístek

Index

Über Autor(innen)

¿Ístek, Franti¿ek
František Šístek 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.

František Šístek 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.