ABSTRACT
Prior to the Axis occupation in 1941, the social and political position of the Bosnian Muslims was governed by their experiences under Austro-Hungary’s administration of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1878-1918) and as part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (19181941). European developments had a decisive influence in both periods and, to a certain extent, at the time of Yugoslavia’s collapse in 1941. But in neither case did the Bosnian Muslims have a say in the political decisions that affected them.
