The Muslim Mediterranean: : Islam and the Contradictions of ‘Europe’ in Bosnia and Herzegovina

This article links the Mediterranean matrix, as theorized by the editors of this special issue, to recent cultural and political developments in Bosnia-Herzegovina. First, it addresses a trend in security studies that rewrites the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina as part of a Mediterranean matrix of Islamist terror. Next, it critiques this dominant conception of Muslims as inherently un-European by focusing on an alternate imaginary of the Mediterranean emerging out of the Bosnian Spring (2014).