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Letter From Sarajevo
Whitmore, Brian | August 18, 2003 issue

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This article reflects on Islam in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Hercegovina. Islam in Bosnia remains an astonishingly broad-minded faith that has largely made its peace with other religions, the West, modernity, democracy and the separation of mosque and state, despite a genocidal war from 19932 to 1995, in which Muslims were the main victims. Bosnian Muslims, who prefer to be called Bosniaks, are tireless in pointing out that in downtown Sarajevo a mosque, a synagogue, a Roman Catholic cathedral and an Eastern Orthodox church are situated within blocks of each other.

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MUSLIMS; WAR -- Religious aspects -- Islam; ISLAM & state; RELIGIOUS institutions; SARAJEVO (Bosnia & Hercegovina); BOSNIA & Hercegovina
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