Description
Book Synopsis 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.
Trade Review “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
Table of Contents 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 Pejić
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 Turčina (A Turk-Convert is Worse Than a Turk): Stigmatizer and Figure of Speech
Marija Mandić
Chapter 11. From Brothers to Others? Changing Images of Bosnian Muslims in (Post-)Yugoslav Slovenia
Alenka Bartulović
Chapter 12. Exploring Religious Views among Young People of Bosnian Muslim Origin in Berlin
Aldina Čemernica
Chapter 13. The West, the Balkans and the In-Between: Bosnian Muslims Representing a European Islam
Merima Šehagić
Conclusion
František Šístek
Index
