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A small Shia Muslim community is also present in Bosnia. [6] Almost all Muslim congregations in Bosnia and Herzegovina refer to the Islamic Community of Bosnia and Herzegovina as their religious organisation. The Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina guarantees freedom of religion, [7] which is generally upheld throughout the country.
However, even when there is a different translation, it does not necessarily mean that the words or expression from other languages do not exist in a respective language, e.g. the words osoba and pravni subjekt exist in all languages, but in this context, the word osoba is preferred in Croatian and Bosnian and the word pravni subjekt is favored ...
The controversy arises because the name "Bosnian" may seem to imply that it is the language of all Bosnians, while Bosnian Croats and Serbs reject that designation for their idioms. The language is called Bosnian language in the 1995 Dayton Accords [26] and is concluded by observers to have received legitimacy and international recognition at ...
Distribution of Muslims in Bosnia and Herzegovina (2013) [11] [12] Islam is the largest of the three main faiths in Bosnia and Herzegovina, making up a bit more than half of the nation's population. The first Muslims were documented in the late 14th century though Islam started spreading in the 15th century.
Economic and social gain was also an incentive to become a Muslim: conversion to Islam conferred economic and social status. Under the feudal system imposed by the Ottomans, only those who converted to Islam could acquire and inherit land and property, which accorded them political rights, a status usually denied to non-Muslims.
Following the conquest of Bosnia by the Ottoman Empire in the mid-15th century, there was a rapid and extensive wave of conversion from Christianity to Islam, and by the early 1600s roughly two-thirds of Bosnians were Muslim. [70] [71] In addition, a smaller number of converts from outside Bosnia were in time assimilated into the common Bosniak ...
If scholarly sources tend to use 'Bosnian' over 'Bosniak' in this circumstance it is only due its more wide-spread usage and less confusing character in the English language. There is no historic rationale to consider Bosnian Muslims of the 21st century a different community than Bosnian Muslims of the 16th century.
When pointing to different religious affiliations within the general population of Bosnia, English authors were using common terms like Christian Bosniacs, [12] or Mohammedan Bosniacs, [13] and also Christian Bosniaks, [14] or Mohammedan Bosniaks. [15]