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The Islamic Community in Croatia: Between Ethnic Bosniak and Civic Croatian Identity
Ist Teil von
Südost-Europa, 2014-03, Vol.62 (3), p.275-304
Ort / Verlag
Regensburg: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Erscheinungsjahr
2014
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The Islamic Community in Croatia (ICC) is generally seen as an internally stable religious organization that enjoys very good relations with the state. However, its complex
ethnic background and the historical context of its formation during the twentieth century have
resulted in the emergence of different visions of the ICC, and since 2012 have led to internal
tensions that are generally unknown to the public. The author points out two contemporary
views of this organization: one seeing the ICC as part of an international Bosniak Islamic
network led by the Islamic Community of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ICBH), the other stressing
that the ICC’s principal goal should be identification with the broader Croatian society.
To explain the genesis of this division, the author analyzes the makeup of the ethnic identity
of Croatian Muslims, the organizational development of Islamic life in modern Croatia, and,
in particular, the historical and demographic relations of Croatian Muslims with Bosnia and
other parts of former Yugoslavia. The division has emerged as a product of several additional
sociopolitical factors, such as the specific historical connections between Croatian Muslims
and modern Croatian nationalism, the appearance of a Muslim and later a Bosniak ethnic
category, the disintegration of the formerly unified Islamic Community of Yugoslavia (ICY),
and the 1991–1995 wars in former Yugoslavia.