ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the psychic topographies on which the entangled sensibilities of Bosniak cosmopolitanism, nationalism and Islamism are potentiated. It shows that the age-old, deeply ingrained survival skills of the Bosniaks as a non-sovereign community within larger political entities conditions their cosmopolitan, exilic and assimilationist predispositions, and constitutes the mercurial ground. The Bosniaks were the primary figures in the Austro-Hungarian policy of promoting Bonjatvo at the end of the nineteenth century and Yugoslav syncretic nationalism until recently. The experience of the Bosniaks of a uniform version of Islam under the auspices of a single institution, Islamska Zajednica, and its distinctive culture of tolerance perfectly in sync with European multicultural values were the primary topics he raised. The arrival of Islam in Europe occurred through two main gates: the gate of the Iberian Peninsula in the 8th century and the gate of the Balkan Peninsula in the 14th century.
