Poturica gori od Turčina or...? : the influence of Islam on "our Muslims" in Serbian nationalistic discourse : (review from the second half of the 19th century to the 1920s)

The article aims to show the issue of the influence of Islam on "our Muslims," as one of the most important heritage of the Ottoman Empire in the Balcan Peninsula, in the Serbian nationalistic discourse. The analysis includes the discourse from the period of the national revival (Vuk Karadžić and Ilija Garašanin), the Austro-Hungarian administrative in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Milenko M. Vukićević and Serbian magazines), travelogues (Georgije Magarašević and Spiridon Gopčević) and geography, ethnographic and ethnopsychological research (Jovan Cvijić, Jovan Hadži Vasiljević and Čedomil Mitrinović) which considers the case of poturice - Serbian converts. The text shows how the stereotypical influence of Islam was duplicated and altered from the second part of the 19th century to the first years of the 20th century.