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The Bosnian Muslims: Denial of a Nation. (book reviews)
American Political Science Review, March, 1997 by Irwin, Zachary
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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