Current Courses

Amila Buturovic's research interests span the intersections of religion and culture, primarily in the context of Islamic societies. Her latest book dealt with the spaces and culture of death in Bosnia and Herzegovina, analyzing the continuity and discontinuity in eschatological sensibilities, epigraphic texts, and commemorative practices in Bosnian cultural history. Currently, she investigates the interconfessional health culture in the Ottoman Balkans in relation to the history of magic, focusing on both written and material culture, from esoteric healing manuals to the occult tradition of amulets, talismans, and herbals.

Amila Buturovic's research interests span the intersections of religion, culture, and identity, primarily in the context of Islamic societies. She is interested in the theories and practices of translation and polyglossia and has written on that subject in relation to Arabo-Islamic Spain and the Ottoman Balkans. Her publications include many articles and essays on these varied subjects. Of books, she authored Stone Speaker: Medieval Tombstones, Landscape, and Bosnian Identity in the Poetry of Mak Dizdar (2002), co-edited, with Irvin C Schick, of Women in the Ottoman Balkans: Gender, Culture and History (2007), published in Turkish as Osmanlı Döneminde Balkan Kadınları; Toplumsal Cinsiyet, Kültür, Tarih
(2008), and edited a special issue of Canadian Literary Journal Descant under the title Bosnia and Herzegovina: Loss and Recovery. Her latest book, Carved in Stone, Etched in Memory: Death, Tombstones and Commemoration in Bosnian Islam (Ashgate, 2015) concerns the spaces and culture of death in Bosnia, specifically the questions of continuity and discontinuity in the eschatological sensibilities, epigraphic texts, and commemorative practices. She has also written several essays and articles on the topic of death in Islamic cultural and intellectual history. Professor Buturovic's current research examines the written and material culture of health, magic, and medical market in Ottoman Bosnia, focusing on the interconfessional transmission of medical knowledge and manuals, amulets and talismanic practices, and herbalism.

Degrees

Professional Leadership

Amila Buturovic is a Board member of the Bosnian-Herzegovinian AmericanA cademy of Arts and Sciences (BHAAAS). More info at www.bhaaaas.org

Community Contributions

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/genocide-denial-leave-bosniaks-stuck-in-a-violent-past-1.5851833

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/the-past-is-present-why-challenging-traditional-narratives-about-history-is-necessary-1.5969819

https://www.aljazeera.com/program/inside-story/2019/3/21/what-legacy-did-karadzic-and-the-war-leave-behind-for-bosnia

https://www.aljazeera.com/program/inside-story/2020/12/14/whats-the-legacy-of-bosnias-peace-deal

Research Interests