The aim of this study was to examine metric characteristics of the structured questionnaire on religiosity for respondents of the Islamic faith, and to establish its structural validity and reliability. The study was conducted on a sample of 230 respondents (70 male and 160 female students). Factor analysis singled out three latent factors or dimen...

By ALMIRA ISIĆ-IMAMOVIĆ, IZET PEHLIĆ, MUAMER NEIMARLIJA

Procrastination and anxiety are phenomena that are associated with the lives of many people, especially students. It is quite logical to assume that students, who procrastinate, have a higher degree of anxiety. The aim of this study was to examine whether procrastination and anxiety were related variables, as well as to determine whether there were...

By ANELA HASANAGIĆ, CEMILE BUSRA OGULMUS

Few civilizations, such as ancient Roman, ancient Greek and medieval Arabian have given to humanity so many revolutionary ideas, philosophical reflections, legal solutions, and systematization of legal norms and the legal regulation of the entire social system interwoven by temporal and spiritual, religious and civil norms. Given the above, this pa...

By AJDIN HUSEINSPAHIĆ

The identification as a belonging of a person to the territory, people, culture, religion becomes one’s authentic property, identity. National identity includes territorial and ethnic type. The basic integrating element is religion, the holder of ethnic values and the development of national consciousness. Bosniak nationality is determined by birth...

By MELISA ZUKIĆ

Speech is the primary mean of communication and through it man establishes social relationships with other people. In the preschool period, children develop speech rapidly, but it is necessary to provide adequate incentives for its development. This paper points to the importance of preschool attendance, because it is one of the factors affecting c...

By DELILA RAMIĆ

Bosnia and Herzegovina is a multiethnic and multicultural society in which, traditionally, there is a high degree of sensitivity to the need to respect, promote, get to know, connect and preserve different cultures. This paper primarily tries to point to the multifaceted cultural identity of BiH and the fact that cultural, traditional and religious...

By MEJRA SOFTIĆ

An increasing number of children around the world, including Bosnian children, are being educated in a second language (L2). This L2 learning in primary school settings raises interesting questions about developing L2 vocabulary. Investigating the nature of vocabulary knowledge in these L2 children is important particularly as they face the signifi...

By LARISA ĐAPO

Legal English is known as a complex language system characterized by the use of formal terminology, complex syntax and a complicated style of writing. However, over the last 40 years legal English has been undergoing reforms which were initiated by the proponents of the Plain English Campaign. The main goal of this movement has been to simplify leg...

By MELISA OKIČIĆ

The aim of this study was to investigate often used non-standard linguistic occurrences in students’ speech, in order to foster language culture. The methods used were methods of observation of situations and methods of linguistic analysis of students’ papers. The sample were students of Islamic Pedagogical Faculty of the University in Zenica who h...

By AMINA PEHLIĆ

The paper treats the Arabic love poetry and its main features in the pre-Islamic and Umayyad period. The formation, development and characteristics of this poetry are closely related to the nature of the poet, as well as the place of its origin. Based on this, we distinguish between urban and desert ghazals. From the point of stylistic peculiaritie...

By SEMIR REBRONJA

Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi is a prominent contemporary Islamic scholar, lawyer, writer and erudite. He is the author of over two hundred books and studies on Islam, Islamic law (fiqh and fatwa), culture, civilization, ethics and education. He is the president of the International Union of Muslim Scholars, the European Council for Fatwa and Research, ...

By SAFVET HALILOVIĆ

Throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina there are pilgrimage sites which Muslims visit from the middle of spring to late autumn. Although a lot has been written about pilgrimage sites, those are mainly press reports on the number of visitors and program content of the sites, and repeated reminders on folk tradition about a particular pilgrimage site, so ...

By ELVIR DURANOVIĆ