Slavic Muslims
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Slavic Muslims are ethnic groups or sub-ethnic groups of Slavs who are followers of Islam. The term is most oftenly used in studies on the Balkans. The majority of Slavic Muslims are found in Bosnia and Herzegovina and southern Bulgaria.[1][better source needed]
South Slavic Muslims
Balkan Slavic Muslims follow Hanafi Sunni Islam.[2] According to the religious ideology of Christoslavism, coined by Michael Sells, "the belief that Slavs are Christian by nature and that any conversion from Christianity is a betrayal of the Slavic race"[3] as seen in Croatian and Serbian nationalism, Slavic Muslim are not regarded part of their ethnic kin, as by conversion to Islam, they become "Turks".[4]
- Bosniaks, or "Bosnian Muslims", the majority group in Bosnia and Herzegovina, also a minority in Serbia, Macedonia and Croatia
- Muslims by ethnicity, small communities in the former Yugoslavia
- Pomaks, communities of Muslims in Bulgaria, Turkey, Greece, Macedonia and Albania
- Bulgarian Muslims, a minority in Bulgaria
- Macedonian Muslims, a minority in the Republic of Macedonia
- Gorani, small communities in Kosovo, Albania, Macedonia, Croatia and Serbia
- Croat Muslims, Muslims of Croats ethnic origin which consist primarily of the descendants of the Ottoman-era Croats and Bosniaks.
- Serb Muslims, a broad term
