Slavic Muslims

Slavic Muslims or Muslim Slavs are ethnic groups or sub-ethnic groups of Slavs who are followers of Islam. The term is most often used in studies on the Balkans. The majority of Slavic Muslims are found in Bosnia and Herzegovina and southern Bulgaria.^[1]

South Slavic Muslims

• Bosniaks, or "Bosnian Muslims", the majority group in Bosnia and Herzegovina, also a minority in Serbia, Macedonia and Croatia
• Muslims by ethnicity, small communities in the former Yugoslavia
• Pomaks, a term for Slavic Muslims in Bulgaria, Turkey, Greece
• Bulgarian Muslims (or Pomaks), a minority in Bulgaria
• Macedonian Muslims (or Torbeshi), a minority in Macedonia
• Gorani, small community in Kosovo, Albania, and Macedonia
• Croat Muslims, a community of ethnic Croats of Islamic faith; a term used in anthropology for Muslims of Croat ethnic origin
• Serb Muslims, a broad term

Balkan Slavic Muslims follow Hanafi Sunni Islam.^[2] According to the religious ideology of Christoslavism, coined by Michael Sells, "the belief that Slavs are Christian by nature and that any conversion from Christianity is a betrayal of the Slavic race"^[3] as seen in Croatian and Serbian nationalism, Slavic Muslim are not regarded part of their ethnic kin, as by conversion to Islam, they become "Turks".^[4]

East Slavic Muslims

• Russian Muslims

See also

• Greek Muslims
• Saqaliba

Annotations

• "Slav-Muslims" (Russian: Славяне-мусульмане, Ukrainian: Слов'яни-мусульмани)

References

1. Mike Dixon-Kennedy (1998). Encyclopedia of Russian and Slavic Myth and Legend. ABC-CLIO. pp. 260–. ISBN 978-1-57607-063-5.
2. Sabrina P. Ramet (1989). Religion and Nationalism in Soviet and East European Politics. Duke University Press. pp. 380–. ISBN 0-8223-0891-6.
3. Steven L. Jacobs (2009). Confronting Genocide: Judaism, Christianity, Islam. Lexington Books. pp. 82–. ISBN 978-0-7391-3589-1.
4. Omer Bartov; Phyllis Mack (1 January 2001). In God's Name: Genocide and Religion in the Twentieth Century. Berghahn Books. pp. 183–. ISBN 978-1-57181-302-2.