Thread by @JasminMuj

I can now share that I have signed with @HurstPublishers to write my second monograph, provisionally titled "The Bosniaks: Nationhood after Genocide," on sale circa Fall 2023. I am extremely grateful to be working with @MikeDwyerMike & co. again.

So, what can you expect?🧵

This text won't be history of the Bosniak people, nor a history of BiH. I am concerned w/ the ideological and political foundations of 21st century Bosniak nationhood. That is, the ideological self-conceptions of the largest but also most misunderstood community in BiH.

This work treats the Bosniaks as primarily an ethno-national group, rather than a religious community. While Islam is a significant aspect of their self-conception, it's the idea of Bosniak indigeneity to BiH that is the constitutive element of Bosniak ethnic & national identity.

Ideally, everyone will be a little be upset w/ this book, albeit for different reasons. Ultimately, it's a reply to the growing din of Bosnian Genocide denial, the resurgence of Serb nationalist secessionism, but also, I hope, a contribution to BiH's political liberalization.

I am aware of the risks in writing a book of this sort: that despite my efforts explicitly not to write a nationalist hagiography I will be accused of doing just that by the usual suspects. But that is precisely why I feel must write this txt; so that others won't have to. /xxx