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Title

Europe's Balkan Muslims : a new history / Nathalie Clayer, Xavier Bougarel ; translated by Andrew Kirby.

Author

Clayer, Nathalie

Publication

London : C. Hurst & Company , 2017.

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Additional Authors

• Bougarel, Xavier
• Kirby, Andrew

Description

xxvi, 285 pages : maps; 23 cm

Summary

There are roughly eight million Muslims in south-east Europe, among them Albanians, Bosniaks, Turks and Roma -- descendants of converts or settlers in the Ottoman period. This new history of the social, political and religious transformations that this population experienced in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries -- a period marked by the collapse of the Ottoman, Austro-Hungarian and Russian Empires and by the creation of the modern Balkan states -- will shed new light on the European Muslim experience. Southeast Europe's Muslims have experienced a slow and complex crystallisation of their respective national identities, which accelerated after 1945 as a result of the authoritarian modernisation of communist regimes and, in the late twentieth century, ended in nationalist mobilisations that precipitated the independence of Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo during the break-up of Milosevic's Yugoslavia. At a religious level, these populations have remained connected to the institutions established by the Ottoman Empire, as well as to various educational, intellectual and Sufi (mystic) networks. With the fall of communism, new transnational networks appeared, especially neo-Salafist and neo-Sufi ones, although Europe's Balkan Muslims have not escaped the wider processes of secularisation.

Uniform Title

Musulmans de l'Europe du sud-est. English

Alternative Title

Musulmans de l'Europe du sud-est.

Subjects

• Islam and state
• Islam and state > Balkan Peninsula > History
• History
• Muslims > Balkan Peninsula > Social conditions
• Balkan Peninsula
• Muslims > Balkan Peninsula > History
• Muslims > Social conditions

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-267) and index.

Language (note)

• Translated from the French.

Call Number

JFD 17-4427

ISBN

• 9781849046596
• 184904659X

OCLC

985186507

Author

Clayer, Nathalie, author.

Title

Europe's Balkan Muslims : a new history / Nathalie Clayer, Xavier Bougarel ; translated by Andrew Kirby.

Publisher

London : C. Hurst & Company , 2017.

Type of Content

text

cartographic image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-267) and index.

Language

Translated from the French.

Added Author

Bougarel, Xavier, author.

Kirby, Andrew, translator.

Research Call Number

JFD 17-4427