Miroljub Jevtić

Miroljub Jevtić (born 1955 in Vranje, Serbia) is Serbian Politologist of religion and professor at the Faculty of Political Science, University of Belgrade.

Jevtić graduated from the Faculty of Political Science at the University of Belgrade, Serbia. He received a master's degree from the University of Belgrade's Law School; his thesis was entitled ”Islamic understanding of war and the role of the Islamic Conference in preserving the peace”. Jevtić studied for his doctorate at the Faculty of Political Science, University of Belgrade, Serbia. His thesis was titled ”Modern Jihad and war”. Jevtić began his academic career in the 1983 as a teacher of People defence and protection (Narodna odbrana i zaštita), a course that was abolished with the breakup of socialism in Southeast Europe in the beginning of the 1990s. Founder and editor-in-chief of the “Polititcs and Religion” journal, [1], the first global scientific journal dedicated to the discipline ”Political Science of Religion“ or “Politicology of Religion”. The first issue was published in 2007, in Belgrade, Serbia. Published by the ”Center for Study of Religion and Religious Tolerance”.

Career at the Faculty of Political Science, University of Belgrade, Serbia:

Professor Jevtić was the author of the monograph dedicated to the Jihad in the Balkans. It was the first such publication ever published in the area covered by his research.

Professor Jevtić was the first academic in the World to introduce 1993/94 "Politology of Religion" or “Politicology of Religion“ in the curriculum of the Faculty of Political Science http://www.fpn.bg.ac.rs/en/undergraduate-studies/political-department/third-year/ . Professor Jevtić coined the term White Al-Qaeda.

Jevtić's views on Islam as aggressive religion are subject to much controversy and are disputed by the liberal and Muslim scholars of the region. Along with Darko Tanasković, he has been criticized as a "propagandist" in the context of anti-Bosniak and anti-Albanian attitude in the context of the Yugoslav wars, and that they picture Islam as backward and violent as a rule.

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