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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.
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Introduction FrantiSek sístek 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
Bozidar 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
FrantiSek sístek 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 sehagic Conclusion FrantiSek sístek Index
About the author
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.
Summary
This volume assembles contributions from historians, anthropologists, political scientists, and literary scholars to examine the political, social, and discursive dimensions of Bosnian Muslims' encounter with the West.
