Serb Muslims
The term Serb Muslims has several uses:
- It is used for the Muslim population in Sandžak.[1]
- It has been historically used for the Slavic-speaking Muslim populations of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Bosniaks), Sandžak (Bosniaks and Muslims by ethnicity), and Kosovo (Bosniaks, Muslims by ethnicity and Goranci).
- It has been used as a self-identification in Yugoslavia.
- It is used in ethnographic studies, noting Islamicized families of ethnic Serb descent.
- It is used to identify Ottoman people of Serb origin.
Islamization of Serbs
Ottoman Grand Vizier Sokollu Mehmed Pasha was Serb.[2]
Serb Muslims in Yugoslavia
During World War II in Yugoslavia, few Bosnian Muslims joined the Chetniks. These espoused a Serb ethnic identity. The most notable of these was Ismet Popovac, who commanded the Muslim People's Military Organization (Muslimanska nacionalna vojna organizacija).
In the 1948 census, Bosnian Muslims were allowed to declare as "Serb-Muslims", "Croat-Muslims" or "Undetermined" Muslims.[3] Most of the Muslims in Bosnia and Herzegovina identified as Serb Muslims, and some as Croat Muslims.[4] The Bosnian Muslim intelligentsia predominantly declared as Serbs.[2] In the 1960s, the distinct ethnic identity concept of Bosnian Muslims (Bosniaks) was created by the Yugoslav government; the Yugoslav Muslims had earlier identified as Croat or Serb Muslims.[5]
Some prominent Bosnian Muslims openly declared as Serbs, such as writer Meša Selimović.[2]
Censuses
Serbian censuses
In the 1953 census in Serbia, of those who declared as ethnic Serbs, 0.4% declared Islam as their religion.[6] In the 2011 census, that percentage was 0.04%.[7]
See also
References
- ↑ Jørgen Schøler Nielsen; Samim Akgönül; Ahmet Alibašić; Brigitte Maréchal, Christian Moe (2009). Yearbook of Muslims in Europe. BRILL. pp. 213–. ISBN 90-04-17505-9.
and it is mainly frequented by Serb Muslims from Sandjak.
Cite uses deprecated parameter|coauthors=(help) - 1 2 3 Trbovich 2008, p. 100.
- ↑ Francine Friedman (1996). The Bosnian Muslims: denial of a nation. Westview Press. ISBN 978-0-8133-2097-7.
Promoting that policy, in the 1948 census the Bosnian Muslims were permitted to declare themselves as Serb- Muslims, Croat- Muslims, or nationally "undetermined" Muslims, revealing the stance of Communist leaders that held that Muslims ...
- ↑ Raju G.C Thomas (23 June 2014). The South Slav Conflict: History, Religion, Ethnicity, and Nationalism. Taylor & Francis. pp. 29–. ISBN 978-1-135-59717-7.
Before President Tito in the mid-1960s gave official sanction to the identification of a new ethnic group called "Muslims" in Bosnia, Muslims identified themselves mainly as Serb Muslims and some as Croat Muslims.
- ↑ Martha L. Cottam; Elena Mastors; Thomas Preston; Beth Dietz (14 August 2015). Introduction to Political Psychology: 3rd Edition. Routledge. pp. 268–. ISBN 978-1-317-37165-6.
In fact, the state created the concept of Bosnian Muslims as a distinct ethnic identity in the 1960s, which was more preferable to the Muslims than their previous identities as Croat or Serb Muslims (Thomas, 1996).
Cite uses deprecated parameter|coauthors=(help) - ↑ Government of Serbia 2014, p. 193.
- ↑ Government of Serbia 2014, p. 194.
Sources
- Trbovich, Ana S. (2008). A Legal Geography of Yugoslavia's Disintegration. Oxford University Press, USA. pp. 100–. ISBN 978-0-19-533343-5.
- Znameniti Srbi Muslimani. NNK. 1998.
- Government of Serbia (2014). "Etnomozaik" (PDF). Government of Serbia.