Semiotika bogumilstva i semiotika islama
Semiotics of Bogomilism and semiotics of Islam

Summary/Abstract: The history of the spread of Islam in this part of the world is intimately associated with the study of the history of the “Good Bosnians”, which in turn is linked to the study of mediaeval religious movements. For more than a century, given the nature of the surviving material and the diverse methodological approaches to its interpretation, there has been an on-going debate between those who defend and those who contest three entirely diffferent standpoints. The first claims that the Bosnian Church was heretical in nature and dualist in its teachings, and that its hierarchical organization and rites were based on the practice of mediaeval dualists; the second, that the Bosnian Church was a national, autocephalous and at all times Orthoddox church; the third highlights the Catholic origins and orthodox nature of the Bosnian church, based on the Croatian glagolitic tradition. Caught up one or other of these theories, the authors of works on the origins of the Muslims of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the spread of Islam in this part of the world have arrived at opposing views, ranging from the belief that the Bogomils (Krstjani, Patarins or whatever other name they give them) constitute the basis and leaven for the spread of Islam, to the denial that they were a factor at all.

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