Xavier Bougarel is a French historian and a researcher at the Centre for Turkish, Ottoman, Balkan and Central Asian studies of the

School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences The School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (french: École des hautes études en sciences sociales; EHESS) is a graduate ''grande école'' and ''grand établissement'' in Paris focused on academic research in the social sciences. The ...

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and an associate of the

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. After studying

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and

culture Culture () is an umbrella term which encompasses the social behavior, institutions, and norms found in human societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, customs, capabilities, and habits of the individuals in these groups.Tyl ...

at the

University of Bordeaux III Bordeaux Montaigne University ( French: ''Université Bordeaux Montaigne''; formerly ''Université Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux 3'') is a public university in Pessac, France, approximately 8 kilometres (5 miles) southwest of the city centre of B ...

and the

Free University of Berlin The Free University of Berlin (, often abbreviated as FU Berlin or simply FU) is a public research university in Berlin, Germany. It is consistently ranked among Germany's best universities, with particular strengths in political science and t ...

, he enrolled at the

Paris Institute of Political Studies , motto_lang = fr , mottoeng = Roots of the Future , type = Public research university''Grande école'' , established = , founder = Émile Boutmy , accreditation ...

, where he graduated in 1990. He taught French at the

University of Belgrade The University of Belgrade ( sr, / ) is a public university in Serbia. It is the oldest and largest modern university in Serbia. Founded in 1808 as the Belgrade Higher School in revolutionary Serbia, by 1838 it merged with the Kragujevac-b ...

from 1990 to 1992 and was an associate of the Centre for International Studies and Research in Paris and

from 1993 to 1996. He defended his doctoral thesis in 1999, in which he discussed the relationship between Islam and politics during the

war War is an intense armed conflict between states, governments, societies, or paramilitary groups such as mercenaries, insurgents, and militias. It is generally characterized by extreme violence, destruction, and mortality, using regular o ...

Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina ( sh, / , ), abbreviated BiH () or B&H, sometimes called Bosnia–Herzegovina and often known informally as Bosnia, is a country at the crossroads of south and southeast Europe, located in the Balkans. Bosnia and H ...

. In the same year, he became a researcher at the Centre for Turkish, Ottoman, Balkan and Central Asian Studies of the

in Paris. Since September 2013, he has also been working at the March Bloch Centre. His work is largely focused on the themes of Islam in Southeast Europe, with an emphasis on the relationship between religious and national identity, the relations of Bosnian Muslims with the rest of the Muslim world, and the diversity and individualization of beliefs and religious practices; the war and post-war area of the former Yugoslavia, with a special interest in the evolution of inter-communal relations during and after the war, the mobilization of militias and the mafia economy associated with them and veterans as a social group created from the war; and 13th Waffen SS Handschar division and their activities in the Second World War in South-Eastern Europe and the general status of Muslim fighters in European armed formations during the 20th century.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bougarel, Xavier Living people Scholars of Ottoman history Historians of Bosnia and Herzegovina 21st-century French historians Year of birth missing (living people)