Religious Quest and National Identity in the Balkans

FLORENTINA BADALANOVA Research Associate, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College LondonBERNARD HAMILTON Professor Emeritus of Crusading History, University of NottinghamVLADETA JANKOVIC Professor of Classical Literature, University of BelgradeALEXANDER LOPASIC previously Lecturer in Social Anthropology, University of ReadingNOEL MALCOLM previously Foreign Editor of the SpectatorELISSAVETA MOUSSAKOVA Head of Department of Manuscripts and Old Printed Books, National Library, SofiaJOHN NANDRIS previously Senior Lecturer in European Prehistory, Institute of Archaeology, University College LondonJOHN D. NORTON Director, Centre for Turkish Studies, University of DurhamIOAN-AUREL POP Professor of Medieval and Early Modern History, Babes-Bolyai University, RomaniaJENNIFER SCARCE Curator of Middle Eastern Culture, National Museums of ScotlandMITJA VELIKONJA Assistant Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of LjubljanaF.A.K. YASAMEE Senior Lecturer, Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Manchester

• List of Illustrations Foreword Notes on the Contributors List of Maps Introduction and General Bibliography: Christianity and Islam in the Balkans; M.Heppell & H.Norris PART I: LAYERS OF BELIEF, BLURRED BOUNDARIES Prolegomenon to Religion in the Balkans; J.Nandris Folk Tales from the Bible and Koran; F.Badalanova Art and Doctrine in the First Bulgarian Kingdom; A.Moussakova Dualist Heresy in the Latin Empire of Constantinople; B.Hamilton The Religious Situation of the Hungarian Kingdom in the 13th and 14th Centuries; I.A.Pop Crypto-Christiantiy and Religious Amphibianism; N.Malcolm PART II: ORTHODOXY The Chilandariou Icon 'She Who Has Three Hands'; V.Jankovic Hesychasm in the Balkans; M.Heppell PART III: ISLAM Islam in the Balkans: The Bosnian Case; A.Lopasic Muslim Communities in Romania; J.Scarce The Bektashis in the Balkans; J.Norton PART IV: RELIGION, POLITICS, NATIONAL MYTHOLOGIES Religion, Irreligion and Nationalism in the Diaries of the Bulgarian Exarch Yosif; F.A.K.Yasamee Sharpened Minds: Religious and Mythological Factors in the Creation of National Identities in Bosnia-Herzegovina; M.Velikonja Appendix: Report of a Meeting of Religious Leaders, Kosovo, March 1999 Index