| Title : | Rediscovering the Umma : Muslims in the Balkans between Nationalism and Transnationalism |
| Material Type: | printed text |
| Authors: | Ina Merdjanova, Author |
| Publisher: | Oxford : Oxford Univerity Press |
| Publication Date: | 2013 |
| Pagination: | xvi, 198 p. |
| Size: | 21 cm |
| ISBN (or other code): | 978-0-19-996403-1 |
| General note: | Includes bibliographical notes (p. [133]-180)
Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-189)
Includes index (p. [191]-198) |
| Languages : | English (eng) Original Language : English (eng) |
| Descriptors: | Balkan Peninsula
Eastern question (Balkan)
Islam
Nationalism
|
| Class number: | 305.6 |
| Abstract: | This book discusses the role of Islam in the political and social developments in the Balkans after the end of the Cold War. With the newly-gained religious freedom, and in the context of multiple structural and cultural transitions, Muslim communities underwent remarkable transformations. They sought to renegotiate their place in formally secular legal and normative environments, mostly as minorities in majority-Christian societies. They reclaimed their Islamic faith, practices, and identities in a complex geopolitical situation dominated (particularly after 9/11) by anti-Muslim sentiments. The rising political and cultural self-awareness of Muslims in Southeast Europe was frequently expressed by recourse to two frames of reference: the national and the transnational. Despite a certain level of tension between those two perspectives, they were closely intertwined. Transnational Islamic influences often reinforced Muslim ethnonational identities rather than prompting a radical redefinition of religious allegiances in the key of a "universalist" Islam. |
| Contents note: | Islam and national identities in Balkan; Muslims transnationalism and the reclaiming; Islam and women in the Balkans; Balkan Muslims and the discourse on a "European Islam"; |
| Record link: | https://library.seeu.edu.mk/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=15659 |
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