Enduring Legacy of the Habsburg Islam Policy

Dr. Sevgi Adak is Associate Professor and Head of Research at the Aga Khan University, Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations (AKU-ISMC), London. Prior to joining AKU-ISMC in 2016, she was a research fellow at the International Institute for Social History, Amsterdam. She is the author of Anti-Veiling Campaigns in Turkey: State, Society and Gender in the Early Republic (I.B. Tauris, 2022), and co-editor of Tek Parti Dönemini Yeniden Düşünmek: Devlet, Toplum, Siyaset (Tarih Vakfı, 2022). She is co-editor of the book series In Translation: Contemporary Thought in Muslim Contexts at Edinburgh University Press and is on the editorial board of Contemporary Turkey joint book series of the British Institute at Ankara and I.B. Tauris. Dr. Thomas Schmidinger is Associate Professor at the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Kurdistan Hewlêr and Lecturer at the University of Vienna and the University of Applied Sciences Oberösterreich in Linz. He has published several books on Muslim minorities in Europe and politics in the Middle East. He is the co-editor of the Vienna Kurdish Studies Yearbook and was the contributor for Austria and Liechtenstein for the Yearbook of Muslims in Europe (Brill, 2011–14). Recent publications include: The Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria: Between A Rock and A Hard Place (Transnational Press London, 2020) and The World Has Forgotten Us. Sinjar and the Islamic State’s Genocide of the Yezidis (Pluto Press, 2022).

The present volume is a welcome contribution to the field of the research on Islam in Europe, particularly Central and Eastern parts of it, as there are still far too few monographs or edited volumes in English dealing with the presence of Islam and its governance in this part of Europe. It could be part of the reading material in university courses covering governance of religion in Europe while individual scholars and public servants would also benefit from reading the book.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsNote on TransliterationIntroduction: The Habsburg Legacy and the Governance of Muslim Communities in Central and Southeast EuropeSevgi Adak and Thomas Schmidinger1. Austro-Hungarian Confessional Politics in Bosnia-Herzegovina: International Law, Muslim Autonomy Movements and the Islam Act of 1912Jan Kreisky2. Islam and the Austrian State between Two Islam ActsThomas Schmidinger3. A Hundred Years Later: The Debate on the New Islam Act in AustriaSevgi Adak and Alev Çakır4. Double Minorities at the Edges of Islam in Austria: Non-Sunni Muslims and Faith Communities between Orthodoxy, Heterodoxy and SecularismAlicia Allgäuer and Thomas Schmidinger5. Islamic Communities in Yugoslav Countries: From their Formation in the Nineteenth Century to the Dissolution of YugoslaviaDunja Larise6. Religion and State in Bosnia HerzegovinaDino Abazović7. Bosnian Islam? Islam and Muslims in Bosnia Herzegovina from a Historical PerspectiveEsnaf Begić8. Muslims and the State in Post-Socialist CroatiaDino Mujadžević9. Muslim Communities and Religious Freedom in SloveniaMarinko Banjac and Anja Zalta10. The Relationship between State and Islam in Hungary: From Empire-Building to Nation-State-BuildingKrisztián Csaplár-Degovics11. Czech and Slovak Muslims: A Long Way to their Own Islam ActŠtěpán Macháček12. Islam and Muslims in the Successor States of the Austro-Hungarian Empire: The Case of PolandKonrad PędziwiatrAbout the ContributorsIndex