TY  - BOOK
AU  - Clayer,Nathalie
AU  - Clayer,Nathalie
AU  - Bougarel,Xavier
TI  - Europe's Balkan Muslims : a new history 
SN  - 9781849046596
U1  - 297.09496 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - London
PB  - Hurst
KW  - Muslims
KW  - Balkan Peninsula
KW  - History
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Islam and state
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-267) and index
N2  - 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
ER  -