The influence of Bosnian Islam on the identity of Slovenian Muslims

Jeglič, Urška (author)

The article focuses on the identity of Slovenian Muslims. The Population Census in Slovenia shows that the majority of Slovenian Muslims by ethnicity are defined as Bosniaks, Muslims or Bosnians. All three national classifications apply to migrants from Bosnia and Herzegovina (B-H). In recent times, religion, beside nationalism and culture, has had a signi-ficant influence on the formation of the identity of Muslims in both B-H and in Slovenia. The primary characteristic of the population of B-H is its heterogeneity. Thus, religious identity has always been evenly tied to its national and political identity. However, we must not ignore the fact that Bosnian Islam has always been different from Islam on other continents, which is especially evident in the ceremonials and everyday manners. The influence of religion is derived from the reality of religious practices that individuals have adapted to their cultural identity. In this discussion, we will attempt to identify the connections that relate to Slovene Islam in Muslim religious practice.

• Language: English
• Keywords: Islamic identity, Bosnian Islam, religious practice, Slovenian Muslims
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: TEOF - Theological Faculty
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2019
• Number of pages: Str. 181-193
• Numbering: Letn. 74, št. 2
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-118061
• UDC: 316.35(497.4):28-762(497.6)
• ISSN on article: 2335-4127
• DOI: 10.34291/Edinost/74/02/Flisar
• COBISS.SI-ID: 11041539
• Publication date in RUL: 18.08.2020

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Edinost in dialog
• Publisher: Inštitut za ekumensko teologijo in medreligijski dialog pri Teološki fakulteti Univerze v Ljubljani
• ISSN: 2335-4127
• COBISS.SI-ID: 268194560

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Vpliv bosanskega islama na identiteto slovenskih muslimanov

Abstract

Prispevek se osredotoča na identiteto slovenskih muslimanov. Popis prebival-stva v Sloveniji kaže na to, da se večina slovenskih muslimanov po narodnosti opredeljuje za Bošnjake, Muslimane in Bosance. Vse tri narodnostne opredelitve se nanašajo na migrante iz Bosne in Hercegovine (BiH). Na oblikovanje identitete muslimanov v BiH in posledično tudi v Sloveniji je imela poleg nacionalizma in kulture velik vpliv tudi religija. Glavna speci-fika BiH je njena vsestranska heterogenost. Tako je bila religijska identiteta vedno najtesneje izenačena z narodnostno in politično. A ne smemo prezreti dejstva, da je bosanski islam od nekdaj nekoliko drugačen od islama na drugih celinah, kar se še posebej kaže v ob-rednem in vsakdanjem življenju. V razpravi bomo poskušali pokazati, kako sta »bosanski« islam in verska praksa muslimanov v BiH vplivala na versko prakso slovenskih muslimanov.

• Keywords: islamska identiteta, bosanski islam, religijska praksa, slovenski muslimani