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| | H-Net Review: Toby Baldwin on The Muslims of Bosnia-Herzegovina: Their Historic Development ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | Fine's account evenhandedly deflates the nationalist mythologies of all parties to the Bosnian conflict: It refutes Muslim claims to be the "original" Bosnians, the sole descendants of the Bosnian church (a view encouraged by the Austrians at the turn of the century, Heywood, p. |
 | | In contrast to Fine, who argues that Bosnians converted to Islam because they were not strongly attached to any organized church, Heywood links conversion rather to the growth of towns in the Ottoman period, a Balkan-wide phenomenon. |
 | | Bosnian uniqueness, then, may lie less in extensive conversion to Islam among the native, Slavic-speaking peoples, than in its survival as a Muslim tidepool left by the receding Ottoman empire. |
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