Imagining Bosnian Muslims in Central Europe: Representations, Transfers and Exchanges: 32 (Austrian and Habsburg Studies, 32)

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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. Imagining Bosnian Muslims in Central Europe Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1. The ‘Turkish Threat’ and Early Modern Central Europe Chapter 2. The Muslims of Bosnia and Herzegovina between Millet and Nation Chapter 3. Ambivalent Perceptions Chapter 4. Sleeping Beauty’s Awakening Chapter 5. The Portrayal of Muslims in Austro-Hungarian State Primary School Textbooks for Bosnia and Herzegovina Chapter 6 Towards Secularity Chapter 7. Under the Slavic Crescent Chapter 8. Divided Identities in the Bosnian Narratives of Vjenceslav Novak and Rebecca West Chapter 9. Austronostalgia and Bosnian Muslims in the Work of Croatian Anthropologist Vera Stein Erlich Chapter 10. The Serbian Proverb Poturica gori od Turcina (A Turk-Convert Is Worse Than a Turk) Chapter 11. From Brothers to Others? Chapter 12. Exploring Religious Views among Young People of Bosnian Muslim Origin in Berlin Chapter 13. The West, the Balkans and the In-Between Conclusion Index