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'This is our little hajj': Muslim holy sites and reappropriation of the sacred landscape in contemporary Bosnia

Henig, David (2012) 'This is our little hajj': Muslim holy sites and reappropriation of the sacred landscape in contemporary Bosnia. American Ethnologist, 39 (4). pp. 751-765. ISSN 0094-0496. (doi:10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01393.x) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:31490)

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Abstract

Bosnian Muslims' understandings of Islam and relationships with the sacred landscape have undergone significant transformations since the dissolution of socialist Yugoslavia. I explore these transformations as I analyze discourses and debates on what constitutes "correct" Islamic tradition in Bosnia today, when Muslim practice has been exposed to a global Islamic orthodoxy and entangled in new supraregional hierarchies of power, values, and moral imagination. I specifically focus on how intracommunal Muslim politics intertwines with contemporary Bosnian Muslim shrine pilgrimages. Bosnian Muslims' understandings of Islam and relationships with the sacred landscape have undergone significant transformations since the dissolution of socialist Yugoslavia. I explore these transformations as I analyze discourses and debates on what constitutes "correct" Islamic tradition in Bosnia today, when Muslim practice has been exposed to a global Islamic orthodoxy and entangled in new supraregional hierarchies of power, values, and moral imagination.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01393.x
Uncontrolled keywords: Bosnia-Herzegovina; Islam; Muslim Politics; Pilgrimage; Postsocialism; Sacred Sites
Subjects: G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GN Anthropology
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Human and Social Sciences > School of Anthropology and Conservation
Depositing User: David Henig
Date Deposited: 10 Oct 2012 13:40 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 10:09 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/31490 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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