An impressive work on global Muslim solidarity in the Balkans across different political regimes. Karcic's pioneering work provides not only new insights into religiously informed ties across states but also offers a globalized account of the region and its transcontinental entanglements with other parts of the (Muslim) world.

Harun Karcic's Balkan Muslims and the Middle East brilliantly reveals the ongoing resonance of cross-regional solidarities forged during and immediately following the Cold War. A must read for scholars and students of both international history and foreign affairs seeking to understand the new global order taking shape before our eyes.

Peter Mandaville, Dr, George Mason University, United States of America

“Harun Karcic's work is a paradigmatic study of the shifting (geo)political orientations of Muslim communities in the Western Balkans. It offers a long-needed remedy to decades of essentialist and Orientalist accounts of the politics in the region's Muslim-majority societies. And owing to Karcic's use of a vast array of primary source documents from the region, no significant future scholarship on Muslim politics and identity in the Western Balkans or Southeastern Europe will be possible without reference to his contributions in this volume.”

Jasmin Mujanovic, Dr, New Lines Institute for Strategy and Policy, USA