Patarenes, Protestants and Islam in Bosnia: Deconstructing the Bogomil Theory (Ascericto-Todd, Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, 2022)

A 2022 peer-reviewed article in Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations examining the long-standing popular theory that Bosnia's Muslim majority descends from Bogomil or Bosnian Church converts who chose Islam over Catholic or Orthodox pressure. The article traces the theory's origin and finds the evidence does not support a direct Bogomil to Islam line, noting Islamization in Bosnia was gradual and driven chiefly by social and economic incentive rather than a prior dualist religious affinity, while observing that the theory has persisted in popular and some scholarly writing well after its evidentiary basis weakened.