Balkan Muslims and the Middle East by Harun Karcic - 9780755646845

Balkan Muslims and the Middle EastThe Influence of the Arab World on the Islamic Revival\nAuthor(s): Harun Karcic\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: I.B. Tauris\nISBN-13: 9780755646845, 978-0755646845\nSynopsis\nThe current revival of Islam among Balkan Muslims did not simply start when war broke out in Bosnia in 1992. It is part of a much longer history of contact with the Middle East.\n\nThis book is the first to examine the evolving relationship between the Balkans and the Middle East covering three phases: the establishment of communist Yugoslavia in 1946, the period of its violent collapse, and during its uneasy post-war and post-Yugoslav independence. Haruc Karcic identifies how official links with the Middle East sparked an Islamic revival. Particularly significant were the large-scale student exchanges between Yugoslavia and the Middle East, and Yugoslavias export of its military and technological knowledge to the Middle East. Th.