Imagining Bosnian Muslims in Central Europe

<p> 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.</p>