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A Model of Resilience against Hate and Violence: Muslim-Jewish Relations in Bosnia and Herzegovina
The ideological underpinnings of the Great Replacement Theory, which frames Muslims as a threat to Europe, originated in Serbia and emboldened a wider narrative of anti-Muslim hate across Western milieus (Dillon, Joshi and Sabic-El-Rayess, 2024; Vieten and Poynting, 2022; Dixit, 2022; Mujanovic, 2021). The othering of Bosnian Muslims (Bosniaks), an autochthonous ethnic group in Southeastern Europe, has contributed to the normalization of the alienation of Muslims throughout Europe, engendering Educational Displacement—an internalized sense of invisibility and devaluation within targeted individuals, diminishing their participation and trust in the societal institutions. In this complex socio-political and historical context, Bosniaks have nonetheless chosen to principally champion interfaith coexistence, offering an instructive and community-based model of resilience to hate and violence. The study investigates the Bosniaks’ affinity for coexistence by examining the underexplored case of interfaith solidarity and entente between Muslims and Jews in Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1540 to the present.
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- Journal of Transformative Education
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- February 3, 2025
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* Accepted for Publication in The Journal of Transformative Education (https://journals.sagepub.com/home/JTD)
** Cite as: Sabic-El-Rayess, A. (2025) [forthcoming]. A model of resilience against hate and violence: Muslim-Jewish relations in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Special Issue. Journal of Transformative Education.