Bosniak Identity and the Bogomil Tradition: Medieval Dualist Heretics as Desirable Ancestors of Present-Day Post-Yugoslav Muslim Slavs
Bosniak Identity and the Bogomil Tradition: Medieval Dualist Heretics as Desirable Ancestors of Present-Day Post-Yugoslav Muslim Slavs

Author(s): Jolanta Mindak-Zawadzka
Subject(s): Cultural history, Theology and Religion, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Bosniak identity; Yugoslav Muslims; Bosnian Church; Bogomilist roots; Torbeshes; Gorani
Summary/Abstract: The paper deals with the presumed Bogomilist roots of Yugoslav Muslims (Bosniaks), recently appearing as a crucial element of a new Bosniak ethnomythology. It tries to examine the social and political reasons and circumstances concerning the recent expansion of this concept, especially on the internet.

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