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The Bosnian Muslims: Denial of a Nation. (book reviews)

American Political Science Review,  March, 1997  by Irwin, Zachary

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Zachary Irwin, Pennsylvania State University of Erie

This is one of many recent works that places the current Yugoslav tragedy in a broader context. Friedman's account of the Bosnian Muslims is exceptionally valuable because it provides a careful history graced by an excellent grasp of Western sources. A corresponding command of Ottoman sources perhaps might settle the "artificial debate over the ethnogenesis of the Bosnian Muslims" (p. 160), for it is the obscurity of Bosnia's pre-Islamic past and the problem of religious conversion that have shaped a pretext for mutually ...

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