Europe's Balkan Muslims : a new history / Nathalie Clayer, Xavier Bougarel ; translated by Andrew Kirby.
Clayer, Nathalie, author.; Bougarel, Xavier, author.; Kirby, Andrew, translator.
2017
BP65.B28 C5313 2017 (Mapit)
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Title Europe's Balkan Muslims : a new history / Nathalie Clayer, Xavier Bougarel ; translated by Andrew Kirby.
Author Clayer, Nathalie, author.
Uniform Title Musulmans de l'Europe du sud-est. English
ISBN 9781849046596 (hardcover)
184904659X (hardcover)
Published London : C. Hurst & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., 2017.
Language English
Language Note Translated from the French.
Description xxvi, 285 pages : maps ; 23 cm
Call Number BP65.B28 C5313 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification 297.09496
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.
Note 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-267) and index.
Added Author Bougarel, Xavier, author.
Kirby, Andrew, translator.
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1. From the Ottoman Provincial Autonomies to the Eastern Crisis (1800
1876)
When the Ottoman Empire in Europe started to disintegrate
Reforms, the establishment of bureaucracies and the formation of new elites
New relationships between Muslims and Christians
The multiple networks of Balkan Islam
From the first scholarly discourses to the first identity constructions
2. From the Eastern Crisis to the End of the Empires (1876
1923)
The strengthening and weakening of the Balkan states
Migrations and population exchanges
Muslims caught between non-Muslim national states and the Ottoman Empire
Politicisation of identities and the slow development of nationalism
The central importance of the question of reforms
Balkan Muslims between representations and practices
3. From the End of the Empires to the Advent of Communism (1920
1944)
From one World War to the other: territorial reconfigurations and the rise of authoritarianism
Nationalisation of societies and ideological radicalisation
Muslims between emigration, the agrarian question and the construction of minorities
Partial nationalisation, strengthening and control of the Islamic institutions
The specific forms of mobilisation of the Muslim populations
Beyond the "reformers"/"conservatives" opposition
A Balkan Islam within new networks
"European Islam" "modern Islam" and local practices
4. From the Advent of Communism to its Fall (1944
1989)
Between Cold War and nationalist fervour
Authoritarian modernisation and anti-religious policies
Different ways in which national identities crystallised
Scientific socialism and national mythologies
The contrasting development of the Islamic institutions
The Bosnian exception: a pan-Islamist current under communism
The transformations of Islam through the prism of anthropology
5. From the Fall of Communism to European Integration (1989
2001)
Between Yugoslav disintegration and Euro-Atlantic integration
"Transition" and the "return of religion"
The Balkan Muslims' politicization
Closer links between Islam and national identity
The renewal and fragility of Islamic institutions
Neo-Salafism: what transformations of Balkan Islam does it reveal?.

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