Ivo Andrić U Očima Bosanskohercegovačkih Muslimana 1945–1962.

The iden­tity of Mu­slims in Bo­snia and Her­ze­go­vi­na was per­me­a­ted by the cul­tu­ral le­ga­ci­es of the Ot­to­man Em­pi­re, pri­ma­rily the Isla­mic fa­ith, so the ar­ti­stic observa­ti­ons of Ivo An­drić towards this em­pi­re and its re­pre­sen­ta­ti­ves, espe­ci­ally lo­cal Muslims – “Bo­sni­an Turks”, ca­u­sed su­spi­ci­on and ge­ne­ra­ted the cre­a­ti­on of a Mu­slim anti-Andrić di­sco­ur­se. However, con­fron­ta­ti­ons between wri­ters and Mu­slims re­gar­ding the percepti­on of the Ot­to­man he­ri­ta­ge were only one of the seg­ments of the “An­drić com­plex”. The se­cond ba­si­cally stem­med on the one hand from the sta­te po­licy of ne­ga­ti­vist por­trayal of the pe­ri­od of Ot­to­man ru­le, and on the ot­her from the po­si­ti­vist at­ti­tu­de of the re­vo­lu­ti­o­nary go­vern­ment towards Ivo An­drić and his work, so to­get­her they de­e­pe­ned the fe­e­ling of devalua­ti­on of the­ir iden­tity af­fi­ni­ti­es among a num­ber of Mu­slims and con­sti­tu­ted a se­ri­o­us fac­tor of po­li­ti­cal in­sta­bi­lity and in­ter-eth­nic re­la­ti­ons in Bo­snia and Her­ze­go­vi­na. An­drić’s li­te­rary works, as well as the go­vern­ment’s at­ti­tu­de towards them and the­ir cre­a­tor, for so­me fol­lowers of the an­ti-An­drić di­sco­ur­se, had an “an­ti-Mu­slim” cha­rac­ter, and even sha­red cha­rac­te­ri­stics with ra­di­cal forms of “Gre­a­ter Ser­bi­an” po­li­tics. The expres­sed forms of an­ti-An­dric, on the one hand, vi­o­la­ted the po­licy of brot­her­ho­od and unity pro­mo­ted by the KPJ/SKJ, whi­le on the ot­her hand, they showed the cha­o­tic na­tu­re of ac­ti­ons and the in­sta­bi­lity of the ori­en­ta­ti­ons of the Mu­slim in­tel­li­gent­sia, which con­tri­bu­ted to a sig­ni­fi­cant de­lay in the de­ve­lop­ment of the na­ti­o­nal iden­tity of the po­pu­la­ti­on of the Isla­mic fa­ith in Bo­snia and Her­ze­go­vi­na.