MEĐUNARODNOPRAVNO UREĐENJE POLOŽAJA MUSLIMANA SA OSVRTOM NA UREĐENJE POLOŽAJA DRUGIH VJERSKIH I NARODNOSNIH SKUPINA NA PODRUČJU JUGOSLAVIJE
INTERNATIONAL REGULATION OF LEGAL STATUS OF MOSLEMS WITH REFERENCE TO THE STATUS OF OTHER RELIGIOUS AND NATIONAL ENTITIES IN THE YUGOSLAV TERRITORY

Summary/Abstract: The Moslems in Yugoslavia, as a religious entity, have acquired by Article 10 of the Convention of minority protection of 1919, an internationally protected and recognized status of minority. This fact seems at the present time somewhat peculiar, having in view that the Moslems of Serbo-Croat speach belong to the same ethnic group from which the former royal government wanted to create first a »serbo-croat-slovene«, and later on a »yugoslav« national entity. In addition, both Constitutions, that of 1921, as well as that of 1931, included a general guarantee of equality of recognized religions, among them the islamic one was included. The foregoing provision of Article 10 meant, in fact, an accomplishment of a long process of mutual relationship of adaptation and dissensions between islamic and other religious and national ethnic groups since the conquest of these territories by the Ottoman Empire. That provision meant, at the same time, a significant stimulus to the process of formation of the particular Moslem nationality of Serbo-Croat speach, first of all in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where the Moslem group is the largest one and the most compact.

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