(Ebook) The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe: Muslims in Habsburg Bosnia Herzegovina (Stanford Studies on Central and Eastern Europe) by Amzi-Erdogdular, Leyla ISBN 9781503636705, 1503636704

(Ebook) The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe: Muslims in Habsburg Bosnia Herzegovina (Stanford Studies on Central and Eastern Europe) by Amzi-Erdogdular, Leyla ISBN 9781503636705, 1503636704

The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe examines how Bosnian Muslims navigated the Ottoman and Habsburg domains following the Habsburg occupation of Bosnia Herzegovina after the 1878 Berlin Congress. Leyla Amzi-Erdogdular explores the enduring influence of the Ottoman Empire during this period--an influence perpetuated both by the efforts of the imperial state from afar, and by its former subjects in Bosnia Herzegovina. Prominent members of the Ottoman imperial polity under occupation, Bosnian Muslims became minority subjects of Austria-Hungary, and developed a relationship with the new authorities in Vienna while transforming their interactions with Istanbul and the rest of the Muslim world. Amzi-Erdogdular highlights Muslim agency, demonstrating that in addition to Habsburg and Ottoman policies, it was also Muslims' own endeavors that shaped their self-perceptions, community organization, and institutions. Their efforts influenced imperial considerations and policies on occupation, sovereignty, minorities, and migration. This book is a product of multilingual research and draws on Eastern European and Ottoman primary material and historiographies. Introducing Ottoman sources for the first time into the study of the Habsburg period in Bosnia, this book traces transregional connections and networks across empires bridging Ottoman, Islamic, Middle Eastern, and Balkan studies. Amzi-Erdogdular tells the story of Muslims who redefined their place and influence in both empires and the modern world, to argue for the centrality of Islamic intellectual history within the history of Bosnia Herzegovina and Eastern Europe.