Table of Contents

Islam, ethnicity and the state in the contemporary Balkans, Hugh Poulton; sustaining a vulnerable identity - the case of the Bulgarian Pomaks (Yulian Konstantinov); from religious identity to ethnic mobilization - the Turks of Bulgaria before, during and after Communism, Wolfgang Hopken; national identity among Muslims in Thrace and Macedonia - Turks, Pomaks and Roma, Hugh Poulton; political change and the revival of Islamic consciousness in Post-Communist Albania, Elira Cela and Genc Lamani; the Muslim population in Macedonia, Natasha Gaber; the Kosovo Albanians - ethnic confrontations with the Slav state, Hugh Poulton and Miranda Vickers; the Sandzak - a perspective on Serb-Muslim relations, Milan Andrejevich; Turkey as kin-state - Turkish foreign policy towards Turkish and Muslim communities in the Balkans, Hugh Poulton; sustaining Turkish-Islamic loyalties - the Diyanet in Western Europe, Nico Landman.