\" LA SANTIDAD COMPARTIDA: La encrucijada del islam y la ortodoxia cristiana en los Balcanes, reflejos en Bulgaria\" , TESIS doctoral

En la presente tesis doctoral se reflexiona sobre las encrucijadas que se dieron entre los pueblos de los Balcanes, cuya formación como Estados está notablemente influenciada por su pertenencia al imperio Bizancio y al imperio OtomanoEn el espacio balcánico-anatolio, dirigimos la mirada hacia los antiguos anacoretas, pretendiendo mostrar la complicidad en las relaciones de convivencia islamo-cristiana, turco-bizantina, turco-búlgara, u otomano-balcánica, y un esquema posible, que puede valer tanto para el crecimiento social y espiritual de la persona, como para el desarrollo de una comunidad étnica o religiosa, cuando se comparte un mismo espacio con otros pueblos, comunidades o etnicidades. In this doctoral thesis with the title: “The Shared Holiness: The crossroad of Islam and the Christian Orthodoxy in the Balkans, reflections in Bulgaria”, presented by VLADISLAVA SPASOVA ILIEVA, we reflect upon the crossroads between the populations in the Balkans, whose conversion into States was significantly influenced by their belonging to the Byzantine and the Ottoman Empires. Known as the crossroads of several cultures, the area was the destination of a massive influx of pagan Slaves, as well as the meeting point of Islam and Christianity. Considering the bidirectionality of the processes, we shall focus on the mutual enrichment brought about in the encounter between the religiosities of the Balkans, and we will discuss these points from different perspectives. In the common Balkan-Anatolian space, we turn our attention to the ancient hermits, with the aim of showing the complicity in the relations of coexistence, whether Islamic-Christian, Turkish-Byzantine, Turkish-Bulgarian, or Ottoman-Balkan, and a possible scheme, that could be valid for both social and spiritual growth of the person, as well as for the development of an ethnic or religious community, when sharing the same space with other populations, communities or ethnicities.The term “shared holiness”, is born as a provocative metaphor that summarizes the issues that were raised at the start of this research.