Bosnia's Islamic Community elects a new reis-ul-ulema
The new leader of Bosnia and Herzegovina's Islamic Community is being elected on October 10. The office carries weight beyond the country's borders: Deutsche Welle reports that the reis-ul-ulema's role is not only important for Muslims in Bosnia itself, but could serve as an inspiration for Muslims across Europe. That's a rare combination — a national religious post with a plausible continental echo, in a country where Islam took a distinctly European institutional form.
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The interesting part is the double constituency: a leader chosen within one small country, watched by communities with very different histories elsewhere in Europe.
Influence is easy to assert and hard to demonstrate. Better to call it a possible source of inspiration than to assume anyone outside Bosnia is actually taking cues.