Imagining Bosnian Muslims in Central Europe: Representations, Transfers and Exchanges

Published by Berghahn Books 2021

Imagining Bosnian Muslims in Central Europe

Representations, Transfers and Exchanges

Edited by: František Šístek

Volume 32 in the series Austrian and Habsburg Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781789207750

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

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.

Reviews

“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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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
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Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction František Šístek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1. The ‘Turkish Threat’ and Early Modern Central Europe: Czech Reflections Ladislav Hladký and Petr Stehlík Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	28
Chapter 2. The Muslims of Bosnia and Herzegovina between Millet and Nation Božidar Jezernik Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	42
Chapter 3. Ambivalent Perceptions: Austria–Hungary, Bosnian Muslims and the Occupation Campaign in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1878) Martin Gabriel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
Chapter 4. Sleeping Beauty’s Awakening: Habsburg Colonialism in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1878–1918 Clemens Ruthner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	76
Chapter 5. Th e Portrayal of Muslims in Austro-Hungarian State Primary School Textbooks for Bosnia and Herzegovina Oliver Pejić Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	92
Chapter 6. Towards Secularity: Autonomy and Modernization of Bosnian Islamic Institutions under Austro-Hungarian Administration Zora Hesová Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	104
Chapter 7. Under the Slavic Crescent: Representations of Bosnian Muslims in Czech Literature, Travelogues and Memoirs, 1878–1918 František Šístek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
Chapter 8. Divided Identities in the Bosnian Narratives of Vjenceslav Novak and Rebecca West Charles Sabatos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
Chapter 9. Austronostalgia and Bosnian Muslims in the Work of Croatian Anthropologist Vera Stein Erlich Bojan Baskar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
Chapter 10. Th e Serbian Proverb Poturica gori od Turčina (A Turk-Convert Is Worse Th an a Turk): Stigmatizer and Figure of Speech Marija Mandić Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	170
Chapter 11. From Brothers to Others? Changing Images of Bosnian Muslims in (Post-)Yugoslav Slovenia Alenka Bartulović Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	194
Chapter 12. Exploring Religious Views among Young People of Bosnian Muslim Origin in Berlin Aldina Čemernica Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	214
Chapter 13. The West, the Balkans and the In-Between: Bosnian Muslims Representing a European Islam Merima Šehagić Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	225
Conclusion František Šístek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	236
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 302
Keywords: History (General); Anthropology of Religion

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Published: January 14, 2021
ISBN: 9781789207750