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“This is our little hajj”: Muslim holy sites and reappropriation of the sacred landscape in contemporary Bosnia
Author(s) -
HENIG DAVID
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
american ethnologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.875
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1548-1425
pISSN - 0094-0496
DOI - 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01393.x
Subject(s) - bosnian , islam , orthodoxy , power (physics) , politics , sociology , religious studies , history , aesthetics , political science , law , philosophy , archaeology , linguistics , physics , quantum mechanics
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.