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Subscriber Essay: Why Did Bosniaks Convert to Islam?
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Subscriber Essay: Why Did Bosniaks Convert to Islam?

Derek Davison
Mar 10, 2017
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Today’s question asks why some Balkan peoples converted to Islam while the vast majority did not. There are two Balkan peoples (Albanians and Bosniaks) in which a majority of the population converted to Islam during the Ottoman period and a couple of others (Macedonians in particular) that saw a large minority convert to Islam. To make things more speci…

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