Europe's Balkan Muslims - A New History

Drawing on first-hand interviews with rank and file members of Hezbollah, the author illuminates the inner workings of this Islamist terror group.

About the author

A specialist on Albanian Islam, Nathalie Clayer is a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Turkish, Ottoman, Balkan and Central Asian Studies at EHESS, Paris. She is also a historian of religion and nationalism in the Ottoman and post-Ottoman eras. Xavier Bougarel is a researcher at the Centre for Turkish, Ottoman, Balkan and Central Asian Studies at EHESS, Paris. He also specializes in Islam in south-east Europe and the wars in the former Yugoslavia.

Summary

Clayer and Bougarel's prodigiously researched book is a political and institutional history of the Muslims of south-east Europe since the fourteenth century, focusing on empires, states, political parties, and religious institutions.

Product details

• Authors: Xavier Bougarel, Nathalie Clayer, Aurelie Daher
• Assisted by: Xavier Bougarel (Editor), Bougarel Xavier (Editor), Professor Nathalie Clayer (Editor), Clayer Nathalie (Editor)
• Publisher: Hurst Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2017
• EAN: 9781849046596
• ISBN: 978-1-84904-659-6
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies, Islamic Studies, Social and cultural history, Relating to Islamic / Muslim people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities, Southeast Europe, HISTORY / Islamic