The Habsburg Garrison Complex in Trebinje (2025)

Culture, resistance and violence: guarding the Habsburg Ostgrenze with Montenegro in 1914

Routledge eBooks, 2020

Culture, resistance and violence: guarding the Habsburg<i>Ostgrenze</i>with Montenegro in 1914

European Review of History: Revue europeenne d'histoire, 2018

140 Years of the Herzegovina Uprising: Research and Unification of Materials From the Legacy of Hamdija Kapidžić and Documents About the Herzegovina Uprising in the Funds of the NULB&H, Archive of B&H, Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovin

Bosniaca, 2022

BOSNIACA

The Herzegovina uprising in 1882, as the uprisings that preceded it, represent a specific period in the history of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Numerous studies were conducted to clarify this topic and the significance of the Herzegovinian uprising for the entire Bosnian society and its position in world trends. We can find sources on this topic in heritage institutions throughout the country and outside its borders. This work aims to present the results of research and unification of materials from the legacy of Hamdija Kapidžić and documents about the Herzegovina Uprising in the funds of the NULB&H, Archive of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the funds of Austrian libraries and archives. The material is presented through a bibliography with accompanying registers and will serve as a starting point for all researchers and users dealing with this topic. At the same time, it will bring a significant overview of this part of our history.

Doing military service to protect the borders of a state and the security and safety of its citizens is a clear indicator of loyalty. Furthermore, military service is a measure of the extent to which a citizen identifies with the norms and values of a state. When Austria– Hungary, as a leading European power, was granted the right at the Congress of Berlin to occupy and administer Bosnia, the Muslim Bosniaks, who once had been the guardians of the westernmost border of the Ottoman Empire, suddenly had to deal with non-Muslim rulers and found themselves a religious minority in Austria–Hungary, an overwhelmingly Christian empire. A key occasion to demonstrate allegiance to their new state came in 1881 with the issue of the Conscription law. Bosniak Muslim soldiers had to serve in an army led by non-Muslims. An insurrection occurred and a heated discussion was initiated to find an acceptable answer to the question of whether or not it was permissible for a Muslim to live under non-Muslim rule and whether a Muslim could serve in the military under a non-Islamic flag. Thus, modernist and reformist thought became an important force in assessments and reassessments of traditional concepts of Islam. Contemporary fatwas, newspapers, witness reports, and archival documents offer crucial insights into the discourses and reasoning of the Bosniaks at the time when these changes were taking place. Many important political decisions concerning Bosnia and Hercegovina were discussed in the Gemeinsamer Ministerrat. However, its proceedings during the years in question have not yet been edited and remain inaccessible. Nonetheless, the accessible sources in Sarajevo shed light on the efforts of the Bosniaks to accommodate themselves to the new ruler and adapt to and identify with " Western " norms and values. Furthermore, these sources demonstrate that as long as the territorial integrity of Bosnia and the religious rights of the Muslim communities were respected, Bosniaks displayed loyalty, military courage, and devotion to the state.

Glauben im Hinterland. Die Serbisch-Orthodoxen in der habsburgischen Herzegowina 1878–1918

2016

Das Buch behandelt modernen religiösen Wandel in Südosteuropa. Es analysiert die serbisch-orthodoxe Glaubensgemeinschaft in der multireligiösen Herzegowina unter habsburgischer Herrschaft – zwischen Priestern und Laien, Gewohnheits- und kanonischem Recht, Staat und Kirchenorganisation, Krieg und Frieden, 'eigenem' und 'fremden' Glauben.

Prelude to Sarajevo: The Serbian Question in Bosnia and Herzegovina 1878-1914

A Reason to Break the Hague Convention? The Habsburg Occupation Policy toward Balkan Muslims during World War I

2016

*article based on a conference paper, unfortunately no proofs available, published in: Tamara Scheer, A Reason to Break the Hague Convention? The Habsburg Occupation Policy toward Balkan Muslims during World War I, in: eds. M. Hakan Yavuz with Feroz Ahmad, War and Collapse: World War I and the Ottoman State (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2016), 1008-1022.

„The Presentation of the Habsburg Dynasty in Bosnia and Herzegovina under the Austro-Hungarian Rule 1878-1918 - The Case of Public Monuments“, in: Representing Habsburg-Lorraine Dynasty in Music, Visual Media and Architecture. 1618-1918, ed. Werner Telesko, 166-188.

Die Repräsentation der Habsburg-Lothringischen Dynastie in Musik, visuellen Medien und Architektur/ Representing the Habsburg-Lorraine Dynasty in Music, Visual Media and Architecture 1618-1918

Russian Sources on Bosnia and Herzegovina under Austro–Hungarian Rule, 1878–1908

Historical studies on Central Europe, 2022