The Noble Qur’an, as the primary source of Islam, speaks about a man (Arab, insan) in its numerous ayats. In fact, a man is the focal point of the Qur’an for everything that’s revealed in the Qur’an is revealed to a man and is about a man. A man, no matter what way we observe him, is the most complex category of existence in this phenomenal world. ...

By SAFVET HALILOVIĆ

Mehmed ef Handžić is considered to be one of the most prominent alims in the last century. Although he lived only 38 years (1906-1944) he wrote an imposing number of various works. He is one of the few, from the newer generation of Bosnian scholars that wrote original works in native language as well as in Arabic. He wrote works on Hadith, Aquida, ...

By HALIL MEHTIĆ

The question of the reason for the revelation of the Qur’an (ashab nuzul al-Qur’an) falls into exceptionally important questions in the science of tafseer, considering that the understanding of the reason for the revelation is an important condition for the proper understanding of the Qur’an. Moreover, there are Qur’anic texts which cannot be under...

By SAFVET HALILOVIĆ

This paper explains one of the five general Shari‘ah legal principles: “The custom has power of law” (El-‘ādetu muhakkemetun) and it sheds some light on the subordinate principles which are subsumed under it. At the beginning of this paper the origin, the point of reference and the meaning of this principle is explained with a special reference to ...

By ŠUKRIJA RAMIĆ

El-Fatiha is considered to be the most chosen sura in Islam. The very fact that it is inevitably recited at any prayer and at any rak’a shows its significance and universality. The most beautiful form of gratitude to the Lord of worlds is expressed in it. Reciting it in a modest manner, we call our Creator with his Beautiful Names: Allāh, Rabb, Ra...

By HALIL MEHTIĆ

The two greatest muhaddis in history, Bukhari and Muslim, had an outstanding memory, precise criteria for accepting and transmitting Hadith and, above all, subtle piousness and godliness. These characteristics made their two collections most renowned and most accepted among all Hadith works. By consensus of Islamic scholars their two collections, k...

By ŠEFIK KURDIĆ

The aim of this study was to determine if there was a statistically significant difference in the effects of Step by step and the classical primary-school programs. The methods used ar thee method of theoretical analysis and the descriptive-analytical survey, and the instruments used are a questionnaire about general information, and self-efficienc...

By IZET PEHLIĆ

Domination of Western Civilization globally presents a great problem for small nations and cultural communities. That problem is especially noticeable in the light of globalization when many peoples and nations almost completely lose their identity. The formula of success many people are aware of today is to remain devoted to one’s own tradition a...

By ZUHDIJA ADILOVIĆ

The companions of the Prophet (sahaba) were the best generation of men that has ever appeared on the Earth. They implemented the Book of Allah most profoundly, by their strict following of the Prophet, saws. Unfortunately, in time, there were attempts to distort the image of this honourable generation, so different untruths were invented in order ...

By ŠEFIK KURDIĆ

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

Student life often involves separating from home, parents and parental support, so for students it, not rarely, presents a quite challenging, difficult and stressful period of life. For these reasons, students become the users of psychological counseling services. The aim of this paper is to explore whether students’ nationality is an important fac...

By ANELA HASANAGIĆ, HABIBE KALIONCY

Contemporary long line of attacks on human life (torture, killing, execution, terorism, crimes, wars, genocides) annuls the results of scientific and technological development. Thanks to learning/teaching a man as an individual as well as the entire human rase can find a solution to the situation. Upbringing/education not only provides all possible...

By MUJO SLATINA

Parents’ attitudes are an important prerequisite for successful realization of inclusive processes. This paper presents results of attitudes of 236 parents (22 parents of students with special needs and 214 parents of regular students), according to educational inclusion. The study was carried out in twelve schools in the area of Zenica, two school...

By MUHAREM ADILOVIĆ

This paper discusses the Shafi’i school of law scholars’ theoretical interpretation of the harmonious meaning (mefhūmu-l-muvāfeqa) and the consequences of such interpretation on the ijtihad in that school, with respect to their interpretation of implicit meaning of a legislative text (delāletu-l-mefhūm). At the beginning of the paper the purpose an...

By ŠUKRIJA RAMIĆ

The aim of the current paper is to compare the reception of the Qur’an and Hadith texts related to science in the classical and modern world of Islamic culture. For this purpose, we have made the reinterpretation of certain texts related to science, within the constituent sources of Islam, the Qur’an and the Sunnah of Muhammad s.a.w.s., on the one ...

By MUAMER NEIMARLIJA

Ever since the nineties of the XX century collective memory has become preoccupation and a research topic in a number of scientific disciplines. Despite its frequent use, even nowadays this term provokes uncertainty, disapproval and doubt. The debate on whether there is collective memory or not is usually taking place between two opposing theoretic...

By ESAD DELIBAŠIĆ

Abu Bakr al-Razi al-Jassas holds a prominent position among the Islamic scholars in general and the scholars of the Hanafi school of Islamic law in particular. He wrote many works and is especially known by his tafsir Ahkām alQur’ān (Rules from the Qur’ān), an interpretation of the Noble Qur’ān with a particular emphasis on the verses related to ru...

By SAFVET HALILOVIĆ

The aim of the current paper is to compare the reception of the Qur’an and Hadith texts related to science in the classical and modern world of Islamic culture. For this purpose, we have made the reinterpretation of certain texts related to science, within the constituent sources of Islam, the Qur’an and the Sunnah of Muhammad s.a.w.s., on the one ...

By MUAMER NEIMARLIJA

Qur'an was announced in an environment which well understood the language in which it was given. The first interpreter of Qur'an was personally Allah’s Prophet, p.b.u.h. Considering the standpoint that dealing with tafsīr is within the category of duties which are fard al-kifaya (there is a consensus of Islamic scholars on this), each generation ...

By SAFVET HALILOVIĆ

A short reflection on the books and publications in which I have already written about religious identities in Europe is presented in the introduction. A situation with religious identities varies from one society to another, from one continent to the other. There are three types of religious identity that dominate in Europe (church, churchless and...

By IVAN CVITKOVIĆ

The term israiliates is frequently mentioned in tafsir literature. Scientists relate the origin of israiliates to the early period of Islamic history, to the time of scholars, when some of them, searching for some extra knowledge and details from the narration about the Messengers and earlier peoples, turned to the words of the followers of the Ho...

By SAFVET HALILOVIĆ

Apocryphal traditions, called Hadiths by our people because they are the words and teachings of the Prophet himself, are a part of our daily routine. They ¸flooded even numerous scientific and technical literature, and they are often quoted by highly regarded and respectable intellectuals. This also goes for those circles that should, with the stre...

By ŠEFIK KURDIĆ

The aim of this paper was to validate the Elementary School Class Teacher Competency Questionnaire based on seven quality standards promoted by The Teacher Development Network, which are the basis for improving learning and effective teaching, for the certification of teachers in practice and the preparation of future class teachers. For that purpo...

By RASEMA SARIĆ

This paper presents the understanding and interpretation of the theme of ‘ibāretun-nass in the Hanafi School of law, which is usually dealt in a branch of linguistics by methodologists of Islamic law. The importance of the branch of Methodology of Islamic law on linguistics and the benefits that a mujtahid has from the principles established by sch...

By ŠUKRIJA RAMIĆ

This paper examines the Hanafi scholars’ approach to the alluded meaning (isharat al-nass) of a legislative text, and the implications of such an approach for the legal norms the Hanafis derived through ijtihad. The first part of the paper discusses the issue of possible textual indications (al-dalalat) within a legislative text, and then the conce...

By ŠUKRIJA RAMIĆ

Recent neuroscientific flows initiated the emergence of modern conceptions of teaching, such as unconscious learning, suggestopedia and neuro-linguistic programming. A common feature of these concepts is the recognition of physiological principles of the human brain, which primarily involve emotional adaptation of teaching which provides a stimula...

By MUAMER NEIMARLIJA

Inside the Ghazi Husrev-beg’s Library is a manuscripts under the reference number 6966 which hasn’t been studied to date and as such is unknown to the wider reading public. On this occasion we are presenting it to the public for the first time. The manuscript is entitled Unvanul-hikme vel-mevizatul-hasene. It was written by Muhammed El-Handži el-Bo...

By HALIL MEHTIĆ

In this study, we have referred to the educational model of culture shock, and the trans-generational model of understanding of family systems. In methodological terms, we have combined quantitative and qualitative methods. In the qualitative part of the study, we used semi-structured interviews with members of two generations, and systematic obser...

By AMEL ALIĆ, SEDIN HABIBOVIĆ, HARIS CERIĆ

The status of qira'ats in relation to the integral Qur'anic text has been the subject of disagreement among Islamic scholars. Some have identified qira'ats with the Qur'an, some have made a distinction between these two terms, whereas some have seen in them the relationship between a part and the whole. Various views on the emergence and role of qi...

By DŽEVDET ŠOŠIĆ

The survey conducted on a sample of 91 subjects, students of various departments at Faculty of Philosophy in Tuzla, was aimed to identify how they estimated quality of the relationship with their parents. For this purpose questionnaires of past and present relationships with mother and father were applied, in which the quality of relationships betw...

By TAMARA EFENDIĆ-SPAHIĆ

Sunnan are Hadith collections recognizable by Hadiths classified according to the Shari’ah legal issues. Actually, they represent a fortunate synthesis of Hadith and Shari’ah law, so they have been especially useful for Shari’ah lawyers in making decisions according to legal principles of Shari’ah. These Hadith collections were the characteristic o...

By ŠEFIK KURDIĆ

The aim of this paper is to point out the meaning that Social Pedagogy assigns to family. The discussion about family led within social sciences is permeated by the discoveries of the systems theory, which places family at the level of a complex system functioning which is nuanced by the action of internal subsystems and external mechanisms of othe...

By AZEMINA DURMIĆ

The Danish experience pertaining to the interreligious dialogue and Christian-Muslim relations is very peculiar. In recent decades it has been marked by extremely negative episodes and political exclusivity, but also by very significant and strong dialogue initiatives. The aim of this article is to illustrate the current situation and to offer an a...

By SAFET BEKTOVIĆ

It is a rarity to find Islamic studies whose development and profiling was not significantly contributed by the Bosniaks. Even though scientific-research efforts of the Bosniaks in the field of Hadith seem an insignificant part of the entire scientific-theoretical experience of the Muslim world in general, it still represents significant contributi...

By ŠEFIK KURDIĆ

Imam Abu Bakr ar Razi al-Jassas is one of the prominent Islamic scholars. He is the author of numerous works, most famous of which is his tafsir Ahkam al-Qur'an (the Qur'an Regulations), in which he commented the Holy Qur'an with special reference to the revelations concerning regulations (Ayat al-Ahkam), according to the methodology of the Hanafi ...

By SAFVET HALILOVIĆ

The work on iqtiḍāun-naṣṣ explores the theoretical interpretations of Ḥanafi scholars in relation to the necessarily assumed meaning of the legislative text (iqtiḍāun-naṣṣ) and the consequences of such an interpretation on the regulations to which the Ḥanafis came in their legal reasoning (ijtihād). At the beginning of the paper, the linguistic and...

By ŠUKRIJA RAMIĆ

The aim of this paper is to contribute to the understanding of the theoretical construct of a social capital. The social capital is understood as one of the relevant prognostic constructs for the results of both transitional and integrational processes in our societies. Considering that the environment we live in is evident in the process of (re)ac...

By EDINA VEJO, NATAŠA MIROLOVIĆ-VLAH

Ebu Hanife, Malik, Shafiya and Ahmad are the leading spirits of Islamic thought. Their reasoning in the domain of Shari’ah made them the unavoidable sources for all generations of Muslims throughout history. The most obvious proof for that is the four great law schools that have endured the time and that had been founded and defined by these four g...

By ŠEFIK KURDIĆ

The aim of this research was to establish the relationship between social support and juvenile delinquent behavior after the juvenile delinquents’ assessment of the quality of social support. The research was carried out employing a method of theoretical analysis and a descriptive-analytical survey method. A Social Support Scale (Abbey, Abramis and...

By JAKUB HASIĆ, IZET PEHLIĆ, SUAD ORLIĆ

Qira’ats are not just strict, patterned forms of reading and writing of the Qur’anic text. On the contrary, qira’ats play an important role in studying the semantics of the Qur’an, its words and expressions. At the level of Islamic law, tafsir and qira’ats have played a decisive role in theoretical concretization of Shariah norms contained in the t...

By SAFET HUSEJNOVIĆ

The research examinesthe subjects of guardianship of a minor’s property in the Sharia Law and the Family Law of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The main purpose of the study is to determine the extent to which the normative solutions regarding the subjects of guardianship of a minor are convergant or divergant in the two legal systems. Af...

By NEDIM BEGOVIĆ

Ehli-sunni methodology of aquida themes is distinguished by certain characteristics which made this method most proper and closest to the truth. Crucial characteristics are: • Unity of source, • Being founded only on evidence from Qur’an and Sunna, • Avoiding discussion and disputes about religion, • Agreement on aquida questions and, • Central met...

By ZUHDIJA ADILOVIĆ

Although Sayyid Jamaluddin al-Afghani (1254 1314/1838 1897) hadn’t written his own tafseer, with his works and association with others he had greatly influenced the mufassirs, whose interpretation of the Qur’an had, in many ways, marked the 14th according to hijra / 20th century. Namely, those mufassir, in the first place, include Shaikh Muhammad A...

By MENSUR VALJEVAC

Allah Almighty speaks of three ways of delivering and receiving the Message in 51st verse of the chapter: وَ مَا كَانَ لِبَشَرٍ أَنْ يُكَلِّمَهُ اللهُ إِلاَّ وَحْيًا أَوْ مِنْ وَرَاءِ حِجَابٍ أَوْ يُرْسِلَ رَسُولاً فَيُوحِيَ بِإِذْنِهِ مَا يَشَاءُ إِنَّهُ عَلِيٌّ حَكِيمٌ. “No human being is given a chance to be addressed by Allah in more than o...

By MENSUR VALJEVAC

Ahl-sunna wel-jama’at has a specific and recognizable method and rules which applies to studying shariah issues in general, and in particular to Aquida themes. They distinguish it from various sects and fractions. However, the method and rules that were obvious to the followers of ahl-sunna through generations are hardly recognizable today. In the ...

By ZUHDIJA ADILOVIĆ

Gifted knowledge (المعرفة اللدنية) is a subject very rarely discussed and analyzed in our language especially in scientific terms. In this paper the author tries to give his contribution to explaining this issue within the framework of the ehlisunna methodology of research in aquida issues. Some fractions give this kind of knowledge too much impor...

By ZUHDIJA ADILOVIĆ

Conducting this research, we wanted to explore the competence self-perception in gifted elementary school students and to compare different aspects of gifted and non-gifted children’s self-perception. In addition to this, we investigated gender differences as well as the correlation between self-perception and academic achievement. The research sa...

By ANELA HASANAGIĆ, ASMIR ZUKIĆ, NINA BULAJIĆ

The aim of this study was to determine and examine students’ metaphorical perceptions of a “music lesson” in different high school grade levels. The research method was designed following a qualitative research approach while a phenomenological design was used. The research study group consisted of 305 high school students selected by a purposeful ...

By MEHMET MUSTAFA BUDAK, ZÜHAL DINÇ ALTUN, YIĞIT DORUKAN DİNÇ, CÜNEYT DURSUN ÖZÇAĞ

Hasan Kafi Pruščak is one of the greatest scholars coming from Bosnia and Herzegovina. He was educated in Prusac, Sarajevo and Istanbul. He served in several places as a kadi and muderris. He participated in a few crusades and battles. He wrote 20 works among which the most famous, the most rewritten and the most commented is the work under the tit...

By ESMIR HALILOVIĆ

The aim of this paper was to find out whether teachers' attitudes about learning and teaching will be reflected in the attitudes about education for ecologically sustainable development. In terms of research methods, a method of theoretical analysis and a descriptive-analytical survey method were used, while survey was used as a research technique...

By NERMIN TUFEKČIĆ, MIRSADA BULUT-HUSELJIĆ

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

This paper explains one of the five general Shari’ah legal principles: “What is certain cannot be denied by doubt,” (Al yaqīnu lā yazūlu bish-shakk) and it sheds some light on the subordinate principles which are subsumed under it. At the beginning of this paper the origin, the point of reference and the meaning of this principle is explained with ...

By ŠUKRIJA RAMIĆ

Ahl-sunna has a specific and recognizable method as well as rules it applies to studying shariah issues in general, and especially to aquida themes that distinguish it from various sects and factions. However, today the method and rules that were clear to the members of ahl-sunna through generations are almost unknown. For that reason some of the r...

By ZUHDIJA ADILOVIĆ

This paper presents the author’s ideas about a possibility of questioning consensus (ijmā’) of Islamic scholars, validity of those consensuses and authenticity of statements found in Islamic writings. In that sense, broad guidelines are presented at the end of the paper. Those guidelines can be of great help to contemporary Islamic scholars for bui...

By ŠURKIJA RAMIĆ

Numerous research studies have shown that teaching profession is one of those most susceptible to stress. In Bosnia and Herzegovina, there are also some additional aggravating circumstances which might be considered stress factors among teachers, primarily a low socio-economic status and forced adaptation to systematic school changes. Moreover, tea...

By ANELA HASANAGIĆ, ALMIRA ISIĆ-IMAMOVIĆ, MUHAREM ADILOVIĆ

The primary aim of the paper was to investigate the relationship between family attachment, communication and family religiosity on the one hand, and risky behaviors, on the other hand, which are grouped into three categories: apathy and absentmindedness, truancy and the consumption of psychoactive substances, and finally aggressive behavior. Two h...

By ALEN HASIKIĆ, NATAŠA VLAH

This paper treats the racial issue, which is present in an entire human history, and contributes to Islamic teachings overcoming and solving this issue. This important topic is present in the primary Islamic sources: the Qur’an and Sunnah, but also in the sira of Prophet, s.a.w.s. and biographies of companions ... Companions of the Prophet, s.a.w.s...

By ESMIR HALILOVIĆ

Imam as-Suyuti Džalaluddin (-911 .... hg-1445-1505) was a distinguished Muslim scholar and writer who wrote about most diverse range of topics and issues from all areas of Islam. Especially important are his works in the field of hadith, taffsir, fiqh, Arabic grammar and history. In each of these areas he wrote several works which, because of their...

By SAFVET HALILOVIĆ

Tesawwuf is an authentic Islamic science like fiqh, tafsir, hadith, and similar. Tasawwuf is not mysticism, nor philosophy, but the essence of Islamic spirituality. Gnosis and education are its two main determinants, so it is embedded in the core of the Islamic concept of education. This was confirmed by Gazi-Husrev bey, a founder of high religious...

By MENSUR VALJEVAC, MINA VALJEVAC

Tesawwuf is an authentic Islamic science like fiqh, tafsir, hadith, and similar. Tasawwuf is not mysticism, nor philosophy, but the essence of Islamic spirituality. Gnosis and education are its two main determinants, so it is embedded in the core of the Islamic concept of education. This was confirmed by Gazi-Husrev bey, a founder of high religious...

By MENSUR VALJEVAC, MINA VALJEVAC

Under the contemporary conditions of postindustrial society, the most important issue of a manager success is reflected through his lidership characteristics. Contemporary managers should be able to balance between their formal and real authority, between rational and emotional inteligence, or between manager and leadership characteristics. Accordi...

By ELVIR ČIZMIĆ, IZET PEHLIĆ

Being part of global culture, in conditions of general cultural diversity, stresses the importance of intercultural communication where one should be able to decode other people’s symbols. Multicultural features of society in whole are the starting point for redefining the role of teachers in our schools since teachers are becoming creators of new...

By ZIJADA KARALIĆ

The main objective of the present paper is to point to the distinctiveness of the tolerant Bosnian legal climate in which for centuries different legal solutions originating from different legal systems have been provided. Thus, in Bosnia and Herzegovina one might encounter equal private law institutes relying simultaneously on Roman-Germanic legal...

By AJDIN HUSEINSPAHIĆ

Mus’ab b. ‘Umejr, r.a. was one of the most diligent students of Allah’s Prophet, Muhammed s.a.w.s. He embraced Islam in his early years and wove into it all of his physical and spiritual strength. Even though his parents had mistreated him because of his devotion to Islam, by depriving him of food, drink and clothing, he remained steadfast on his p...

By ŠEFIK KURDIĆ

At the end of his Prophetic mission, the 10th year of hijrah, Allah's Prophet, Muhammad, saws, performed hajj. It was the only hajj performed by the noble Prophet, saws. Since he passed away returning to the Creator (“Ila al-Rafiq al-'Ala”) soon after the hajj, it is called the Farewell pilgrimage (hajj) of the Prophet, saws. The Prophet also held ...

By ESMIR HALILOVIĆ

Mutual respect between members of Ahlul Bayt and the first generation of companions, as well as in-law relationships and naming each others’ children, recorded in authentic Islamic sources, confirm that there was no conflict or hostility between members of tAhlul Bayt and the companions. Relevant traditional and historical sources challenge and ref...

By MINA VALJEVAC

The concept of education for development is, like all other concepts of education, subject to numerous contemporary attempts of redefining which are often determined by different pragmatic-ideological requirements, so it is possible that this very important concept becomes the opposite of itself. Therefore, this paper analyzes the education for dev...

By ADNAN TUFEKČIĆ

Ethnopedagogical approach to prevention of social exclusion of youth implies research and using popular upbringing as a socio-historical phenomenon in structuring contemporary educational system. Popular pedagogy cannot be completely renewed, which is not necessary, so it should be merged with contemporary pedagogical thought. In addition to that, ...

By ADNAN TUFEKČIĆ

The wives of Allah’s Messenger s.a.w.s. have a special place and treatment in Islamic tradition. According to the Qur’an they are Umehatu-l-mu’minin (Mothers of the believers): ¨The Prophet is closer to the believers than their ownselves, and his wives are their mothers.¨ (El-Ahzab). The Prophet’s wives had a specific treatment after his death too:...

By SAFVET HALILOVIĆ

Mehmed Handžić (1906-1944) is one of the most significant Bosnian alims (scholars). Even though he lived shortly, he is the most prolific Bosnian alim that left us imposing literary work from various studies. What makes him unique and original among the Bosnian ulama is the fact that he was the only one, in the modern history of the Bosniaks, who ...

By HALIL MEHTIĆ

Mehmed ef. Handžić (1906-1944) is a unique Bosnian alim (scholar) who wrote great many diverse works. His uniqueness lies partly in his being the only one, in the modern history of Bosnian Muslims, who annotated the Noble Qur’an in Arabic and who treated only the ayats with Shari’ah (legal) themes (ajatul-ahkam). In the field of Taffssir his most i...

By HALIL MEHTIĆ

Islam emphasizes the importance of marriage which is a prerequisite for forming a healthy family which, then, presents the foundation, the pillar, the basis of every society. Thus, marriage has a special place in Islam. However, it can also be exposed to various challenges and temptations which, ultimately, can disrupt relationships within the marr...

By SAFET HUSEJNOVIĆ

Sciences whose development and defining is iseriously nfluenced by women, along with men, are rare. Hadith and Hadith science is an exception in this regard. Ever since the very beginning of Islam, women - experts in the field, played a very important role in preserving and passing on Muhammad`s Hadith. In all stages of development of Hadith l...

By ŠEF KURDIĆ

This paper is the adapted and extended version of the bachelor’s work of our student Eldar Ćerim supervised by professor Edina Vejo and assistant professor Elma Begagić. The paper presents the results of several research studies (Bazrafshan, Jahangir & Shokrpour, 2017; Cox, 2011; Pirner, 2017; Williams & Lindsey, 2005) showing the nature of...

By ELDAR ĆERIM, EDINA VEJO, ELMA BEGAGIĆ

This paper sheds some light on one of the five general principles in sharia: “There is no inflicting of harm or repaying one by inflicting harm”, and the subordinate principles which are subsumed under it. The origin, the point of reference and the meaning of this principle is explained at the beginning with a special mention of the hadith with the...

By ŠUKRIJA RAMIĆ

Qira'ats present a very significant study of the Qur'an in terms of understanding and interpreting the Qur'anic text. They are not only exotic styles of voice variations and modulation, but an integral part of the language of the Qur'an, its lexical, morphological and syntactic structure. Understanding that aspect is a prerequisite for a correct in...

By SAFET HUSEJNOVIĆ

The aim of this paper was to carry out a socio-pedagogical analysis of peer violence, the quality of high school students’ family and school life, and to examine the relationship between peer violence and the quality of family and school life among high school students. The research was conducted employing a method of theoretical analysis and a des...

By EMINA BABIĆ, IZET PEHLIĆ

Qira'ats present a very significant study of the Qur'an in terms of understanding and interpreting the Qur'anic text. They are not only exotic styles of voice variations and modulation, but an integral part of the language of the Qur'an, its lexical, morphological and syntactic structure. Understanding that aspect is a prerequisite for a correct in...

By SAFET HUSEJNOVIĆ

Social work services should be a basic indicator of the life quality of people in a certain society, but also an indicator of the level of social and economic rights fulfillment. However, the fulfillment of the aforementioned rights and the availability of social work services depend on the socio-economic development of a country and a series of ch...

By SABIRA GADŽO-ŠAŠIĆ

The aim of the research was to describe the peculiarities of the interactive-communicative dimension of the micro-pedagogical aspect in teaching Islamic religious education. A descriptive-analytical survey method was used. A survey technique was used for gathering data. The measuring instrument was the inventory for teachers and students (Bratanic,...

By MUAMER NEIMARLIJA, IZET PEHLIĆ

A set of instruments applied at entrance exams for the last two academic years has been rather comprehensive in order to provide good insight into candidates’ skills and characteristics. For the reasons of rationalizing testing instruments which are to be used at entrance exams at this faculty, and for the aim of the research, it is necessary to ex...

By ANELA HASANAGIĆ

Studying Al-Faraby’s work, with an accent on his contribution to the methodology of language study, we came to the conclusion that he persistently tried to bring closer language and logic. Committed to setting a scientific system and research method which would be based on the reason and argumentation, he significantly rose above his time heavy wit...

By MEHMED KICO

The aim of the study is to examine social capital by dimensions (network characteristics, social norms, resources and consequences of social capital) that are the result of analysis of concepts (Hean et. al., 2004), and on the other hand to examine correlation between social capital and its consequences that are manifested through inner resources o...

By AZEMINA DURMIĆ

Since humans are essentially social beings a stimulating social environment is crucial for human development. On the other hand, anything that promotes social distance, conflict, or facilitates social disintegration can be treated as a disruptive variable in the context of overall human development. The events the 21st century civilization witnesse...

By MUAMER NEIMARLIJA

This paper presents the main methodological features of Abduhu’s school of reformation in the field of tafsir, especially its relation to traditional explanation of Qur’an. There is little doubt that this school, despite the critiques, initiated a range of useful things in Islamic world. Its influences to subsequent generations of scholars, through...

By SAFVET HALILOVIĆ

According to the teaching of the Qur`an, Islam is, primarily, obedience to Allah and voluntary subordination to His will and regulations. The Qur`an points out that all the unpleasant things which man experiences in his life are results of his misdoings, which are as such, inconsistent with Allah's order and the laws prescribed by Him. Islamic inj...

By SAFVET HALILOVIĆ

Exploring the attitudes of students and teachers of Islamic religion, this study aimed to determine the characteristics of the implementation of cooperative learning in comparison to traditional teaching in elementary schools. The research was based on the assumption that there are some features of cooperative learning which make it more effective ...

By HASUDIN ATANOVIĆ, ESAD MEMIĆ

December 2016 marks the 110th anniversary of the birth of one of the most eminent Bosnian alims ofthe twentieth century, Mehmed effendi Handžić. With respect to the fact that he has been the subject of interest in many works and studies, this paper aims at pointing to one segment of his life, unexplored so far. Namely, when discussing Mehmed effend...

By HALIL MEHTIĆ

From the aforementioned it can be concluded that Abu Hurajrah r.a. with his spiritual, physical and intellectual characteristics, really deserves the epithet of one of the most famous and most recognized friends of Allah’s Prophet, p.b.u.h. The facts presented in this paper deny, in the best way, statement made by Abu Rayya and some other orientali...

By ŠEFIK KURDIĆ

I want to make a contribution to understanding the relation between interreligious dialogue and Religious Education based on my own experience of teaching non-confessional Religious Education in Swedish schools, training teachers in Swedish universities for such Religious Education and sharing in Sweden dialogues, rejoicing and disappointment with ...

By EDGAR ALMEN

The Ka’ba in Mekah and the Prophet’s house in Maddinah are the archetypes of Islamic architecture. They are situated in, for Muslims, most sacred places (al-haramayn). The Ka’ba represents the beginning and the Prophet’s mosque the end of forming a fundamental cultural matrix, or in other words macroparadigm, of the People of the Book as a basis fo...

By NUSRET ISANOVIĆ

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

This paper discusses the genesis of the idea of social isolation and the author considers that mass poverty is the key potential for starting social isolation. The universe of poverty variable does not end only with the beginning of social isolation, but it also has some other implications like social reforms failure, small social capital, and low ...

By ŠABANI ALISABRI

Ovaj rad prezentira razmišljanja autora o moralno-šerijatskoj dimenziji naučnog istraživanja. U uvodnom dijelu autor ističe značaj islama za ljudski rod, a potom objašnjava značenje termina moralno-šerijatska dimenzija i šta se pod tim podrazumijeva u kontekstu zadate teme. U nastavku autor pojašnjava koje su, sa šerijatskog aspekta, dozvoljene sfe...

By ŠUKRIJA RAMIĆ

The aim of this study was to verify the metric characteristics of TCI (Temperament and Character Inventory) on Bosnian population. TCI questionnaire is constructed for the purpose of empirical verification of psychobiological model of personality by Robert Cloninger et al (Cloninger, Przybeck, Svrakić and Wetzel, 1994). It consists of 240 items, gr...

By ALMIRA ISIĆ-IMAMOVIĆ

Intellect occupies a very important place in Islam. Not one of the past revelations directs our attention to intellect, its role and significance in the life of man, as does the Book of Islam. A superficial glance at a Qur’anic text will reveal verses that end with the words: “… so that you would understand.” “…so that you would think.” “…to those ...

By ZUHDIJA ADILOVIĆ

This study aims to analyze and compare teaching practices in an inclusive setting. The study focuses on teachers’ self-evaluated teaching practices with students with seven or more predominantly inattentive symptoms associated with ADHD, depending on their beliefs about the values of inclusive education and some demographic factors. The results are...

By ESMERALDA SUNKO, IVANA BATARELO-KOKIĆ, NATAŠA VLAH

The aim of the study was to examine a correlation between academic self-regulation (as a motivation measure), student perception of parents (their support, involvement and warmth) and school achievement of high-school students. The methods used in the study were survey method and a polling technique, and study instruments used were Children’s Perc...

By IZET PEHLIĆ, EMINA SPAHIĆ-JAŠAREVIĆ

Children in orphanages are either children who have no parents, or children who have no adequate parents or parental care, in the sense that these children are ignored, neglected, abused, etc., so social services often take them into the institutions for children without parental care. In this paper, the case study method was used to analyze ten ch...

By ANELA HASANAGIĆ

The development of social competences represents an integrated part of an individual’s development and is important for the proper functioning within the society. The excessive focus of school on the students’ cognitive development more often leads to neglecting the development of students’ social competences, which are crucial to the students’ hea...

By SENADA FEJZIĆ

The paper present a new pedagogical issue known as brain-based learning. The main determinants of the phenomenon have been pointed out to question the possibilities of its methodical impact. The phrase brain-based learning is used as a term for the way of understandig a learning process. Various publications of an American author Eric Jensen's boo...

By AMINA ISANOVIĆ

As a resume to this paper I would like to set forth a critical viewpoint of a distinguished alim and a professor at Behrambey’s medresah in Tuzla, Ibrahim Čokić, who to this Schtadler’s statement replies that: “He (Schtadler, prim. B:H) has before his eyes his main wish and his ideal: to convert Muslims to Christianity. His wish was not fulfilled. ...

By BILAL HASANOVIĆ

The closest meaning of the key word „mawla“, mentioned in the following hadith referring to Hazrat Ali: „If I am a person’s mawla then Ali is also his mawla” is familiarity and closeness. Several interpretations of this hadith (sebebul-vurūd) suggest exactly this meaning, and not the meaning of authority transfer and succession, as taught by the Is...

By MINA VALJEVAC, MENSUR VALJEVAC

This paper explains one of the five general Shari’ah legal principles: “The hardship causes alleviation” (El-mešeqqatu tedžlibut-tejsīr) and it sheds some light on the subordinate principles which are subsumed under it. At the beginning of this paper the origin, the point of reference and the meaning of this principle is explained with a special re...

By ŠUKRIJA RAMIĆ

An art like Islamic, that emerges from the feelings of listening attentively to the persuasions of God’s signs all around present, from the ambiance of reading them, competent understanding and following, can be nothing but a sign. Like natural phenomena, which also are God’s ¨signs¨ or ¨symbols¨ in the world of images, the works of Islamic art do ...

By NUSRET ISANOVIĆ

According to the Qur’an and Hadith the Prophet of Allah, Muhammad, peace be upon him, is the most exceptional slave and Prophet of Allah, and his family presents the most exceptional family. Its value is being indicated directly and indirectly by the Qur’an verses as well as by the hadith of the Prophet of Allah, may Allah send blessings and peace ...

By MENSUR VALJEVAC, MINA VALJEVAC

The objective of this study was to make a scientific description of motivation factors in maktab teaching by analyzing the attitudes of students, mualims and parents. We supposed that mualims use various strategies and actions to motivate their students. A method of theoretical analysis and a descriptive-analytical method were employed, while the f...

By SAFET BEGANOVIĆ, DERVIŠ VAREŠLIJA

Qur’an is Allah’s last Book of Revelation passed through an angel named Jibril to Muhammed s.a.v.s. and to all humanity. Out of the Qur’anic text and the Prophet’s s.a.v.s words we can understand that Allah, the Sublime, guaranteed its preservation. Learning the Qur’an by heart (hifz) is one of the ways of preserving the Qur’an. The first hafiz was...

By HALIL MEHTIĆ

The term “Ahl As-Sunnah” has two meanings, general and particular. In its general meaning this term designates Muslims who are not Shī'ites and all sects that are attributed to Islam except for Shī'ites. On this basis Muslims in the world are divided into Sunnites and Shī'ites. In its particular meaning this term designates Sunna followers i.e. th...

By ZUHDIJA ADILOVIĆ

This paper elaborates ten crucial principles that should be the basis for ijjtihad in Islamic law (Fikh): 1. the principle of active ijjtihad, 2. the principle of considering the entire fikh heritage and braking loose with a blind devotion to any of the mezhebs, 3. the principle of understanding the essence of life conditions and circumstances, 4. ...

By ŠUKRIJA RAMIĆ

This paper deals with companions - comrades and contemporaries of Allah’s Prophet, s.a.w.s. The aim of the paper is to draw attention to the importance of knowing companions, both in relation to hadith terminology, and to entire Islamic thought. They were the ones who first believed and carried the burden of Islamic mission in its most difficult ti...

By ESMIR HALILOVIĆ

Reviewing Handžić`s interpretation of the Holy Qur`an and particularly the interpretation of Surah al-Baqarah and en-Nisa, we were able to verify the methodology that was followed. A general observation reveals that he based his methodology on nine principles. Among these principles he highly places derogating (nasih) and derogated (mensuh) ayats....

By HALIL MEHTIĆ

Parenting styles refer to specific ways of parents’ behavior towards children including at least two dimensions, namely affectionateness in the relationship and control, which as such determine many characteristics of children’s personality encountered later on. What has remained undefined up to now is whether perfectionism is determined by inborn ...

By ANELA HASANAGIĆ, ALDINA LETO

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

Unemployment is one of great problems of modern society, especially in transition countries. This problem usually affects persons younger than 15-30 years, which is why it is necessary to create adequate employment policy. This paper presents a qualitative study which aimed at gaining an insight into types of support the Country offers to young une...

By NAIDA TURSIĆ

Traditional practice at schools has ceased to be the primary source of acquiring knowledge for some time now. These days, teaching staff is dealing with a population of students that cannot be integrated into the teaching process in a traditional way. Students see teaching requirements and teachers’ efforts as old-fashioned, difficult and dull. Tea...

By AHMED BULJUBAŠIĆ

Homesickness is a common feeling for most students, especially those who experience the separation from their own homes for the first time. It is known that some personality traits are associated with adjusting to the new situation, and when we talk about the separation from home and adapting to the new environment, we assume that one of the import...

By ANELA HASANAGIĆ, SENIHA BUSRA ASICI

The emergence of Islamic art as a cultural and historical reality of Islam is linked to the Ummayads. The crowning work of Islamic culture of the Ummayad Period is one of the most interesting works of Islamic architecture in general - the Great Mosque in Damascus. This work marks the coming out of Islamic art from the phase of vacillation and a wav...

By NUSRET ISANOVIĆ

The role of school as an educational factor is to empower a young person in the field of social competences in order to enhance the sensitivity for the development of social closeness among different social groups. This research endeavor aims to further clarify the social distance among Bosnian- Herzegovinian high school students. The research samp...

By IZET PEHLIĆ

Based on insights from earlier research, it was found that the quality of school life can be a factor in the prevention of peer violence among students, which was the basis for the selection of this research problem. The aim of this study was to examine the attitudes of elementary and high school students about the quality of school life and to est...

By ERMIN VUČKIĆ, IZET PEHLIĆ

The aim of this paper is to explore mental health challenges (operationally defined primarily through the DASS questionnaire – depression, anxiety and stress), but also the social aspect of individual stability due to the pandemic among educators in Bosnia and Herzegovina, taking into account the fact that kindergartens did not work, that some educ...

By MUHAREM ADILOVIĆ, AMINA ODOBAŠIĆ, ALDINA LETO

After the occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina by Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (1878), Muslims in B&H undergo great social, political and cultural changes. Numerous cultural, political and economic relations between Bosniacs and far away centers of Islamic, political and cultural life of the Islamic world were almost broken. Bosnian Muslims were f...

By BILAL HASANOVIĆ

The aim of the research was to define the relationship between personality dimensions based on the five-factor model (neuroticism, extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness and openness to experience) and love styles (eros, ludus, storge, mania, pragma and agape), i.e. to determine whether there is a connection between personality dimensions a...

By ALMIRA ISIĆ

Abstract The aim of the research was to examine the attitudes of teachers, parents and students toward the impact of the parent-school cooperation on students' academic achievement. The research sample comprised 100 students, 39 teachers, and 65 parents. A survey method was used to gather data in this research. Within this method three scales were ...

By AMER ĆARO, SELMA TURALIĆ

The paper presents the basic periods of the emergence and development of the Hadith science from the time of the Prophet to the end of its developing period. The paper points out and evaluates the period of the formation of the Hadith at the time of the Prophet s.a.v.s., the reasons of unsystematic noting of hadiths at the time of the Prophet s.a.v...

By ESMIR HALILOVIĆ

In addition to presenting the classic hadith scholars’ work on protecting the hadith material from insertions and modifications as well as presenting the developmental stages of the hadith science, this paper aims to represent some specificities of the hadith narrations such as the shortest sened (sulasijjat) by which the narration reached the most...

By SALIH INDŽIĆ

Muhammed Seid Serdarević belongs to the respected Serdarević family of Zenica, the family that gave the medresah in Zenica some distinguished alims, Muhammed Seid Serdarevic being one of them. He went to school in Sarajevo, and graduated from Gazi-Husrevbey’s hanihak and Daru-l-mu’allimin where he stood out for above-average intelligence. Thanks to...

By BILAL HASANOVIĆ

This work highlights one of five general principles in Sharia law “Actions of an individual are judged according to his/her intentions”. In the introduction a definition for the Islamic law principles (el-qavaid el-fiqhijje) is provided, then the beginning and development of these principles are explained. Having in mind that the intention (niyyah...

By ŠUKRIJA RAMIĆ

This scientific paper presents the research of canonical relation between dimensions of religiosity and marital quality. The research included 120 participants (60 Muslim heterosexual married couples, ranging in age from 30 to 55 years). Research instruments used were the Questionnaire on Religiosity and its influence upon daily life (Ćorić, 1998)...

By ALMIRA ISIĆ

Being a Qur’anic-Hadith category the interpretations of dreams is also a part of Islamic belief and practice. Dreams are not connected to people but to their meaning and as such they must not be a reason for repulsing people. Generally speaking, all dreams should be positively interpreted. Making up and magnifying dreams is a great sin. Bad dreams ...

By MENSUR VALJEVAC

The main objective of this study was to determine the difference in the intensity of stress and coping strategies of deminers with regard to the position and length of service. The study included 216 participants, or deminers of Armed Forces in BiH of varying lengths of service, which include deminers of various demining teams of BiH Armed Forces, ...

By ALDIN GOLETIĆ

The aim of this research was to make a comparative analysis of traditional and interactive learning in Islamic religion classes, based on the results of testing students' knowledge and analyzing the students' and teachers' attitudes. We hypothesized that there would be a difference between traditional and interactive learning in Islamic religion cl...

By HASUDIN ATANOVIĆ, ESAD MEMIĆ

In this paper, we try to shed some light on the possibility and necessity for Islamic banks to play some more active role in realizing one of the most important purposes of Islamic law – Sharia – to eradicate poverty and to insure just distribution of profit and wealth. The paper presents a sharia-legal foundation for starting institutions inside I...

By ŠUKRIJA RAMIĆ

In the introduction the author of the article (lecture) revives the issue of the importance of dialogue and points to the growing complexity of challenges facing dialogue, and in particular interreligious dialogue, in the contemporary society. The article focuses on several important issues underlying interreligious dialogue. Thus, in the introduct...

By VALENTINA MANDARIĆ

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

With regard to orientation and examining the functional values of linguistic elements the Prague School of Linguistics is known as the School of Functional Linguistics. Functional linguists derived their advanced theoretical postulates from the famous Kazan school that was founded by two eminent Polish citizens, Jan Baudouin de Courtenay and his di...

By HAZEMA NIŠTOVIĆ

Islamic scholars agree that without knowing the Arabic language and its disciplines it is impossible to completely understand the Qur’an. In that sense they emphasise that valid are those meanings of the Arabic language from the time of the revelation of the Qur’an, since the Arabic language, as every other language, is capable of changes that are ...

By SAFVET HALILOVIĆ

The paper deals with the issue of socio-emotional climate and students' school success, it attempts to point out their importance, as well as to explicate particular aspects and dimensions of these two concepts, with a special emphasis on the investigation of their interconnection. The aim of the research is to determine the relationship between so...

By BELMA ALIĆ-RAMIĆ

Since the time of the Last Revelation the first Muslims dedicated much attention to the correct recitation of the Qur’an. The Prophet of Allah, Muhammad, peace be upon him, personally used to send the Qur’an reciters to some provinces with the task to teach others the correct recitation of the Qur’an. With respect to this, tajweed is a scientific d...

By SAFET HUSEJNOVIĆ

In this paper we presented the meaning of the word belā (بَلَى), different stances of the Arabic language authorities on its ambiguity as well as different opinions of experts in the field of Qira’at and Tafsir about the types of pausal forms on this word. We listed individual examples relying on the Qur’anic order and pointed out possible tafsir i...

By MENSUR MALKIĆ

The aim of this paper was by relying on the relevant theoretical sources to make scientific theoretical reflections on positive effects of exercising and performing motor activities accompanied by music. The starting point was the fact that motion, as the basic motor unit of movement, is an accompanying element in the genes of children, an insepara...

By MIRJANA MAĐAREVIĆ, INDIRA MEŠKIĆ

The aim of this study was to construct a School-readiness Questionnaire. We investigated an intentional sample of 89 children who attend kindergarten in Zagreb. Based on the factor analysis, we have reduced the number of items from 50 to 31 items. The results indicate generally low correlation scales of the questionnaire with the Test of readiness ...

By KRISTINA GRBIĆ, JOŠKO SINDIK, MARINA VUKO

The passing of Dr. Teufik Muftic is an irretrievable loss, considering that he was the author of very valuable scholarly works in the field of study and understanding of Arabic. His prolific scholarly works are important for many fields, especially in the field of textbooks for the study of Arabic, writing of research works in Arabic and the gramma...

By MEHMED KICO

Today, a teacher’s professional development is said to be a process that includes different experiences, that of a pupil, student, parent, other co-workers and teachers themselves. The term socialization is more often used. Its use in this context should broaden the meaning of the term teacher’s professional education to all processes and contexts ...

By DŽEVDETA AJANOVIĆ

At the time when Austro – Hungarian authority proclaimed the term Bosnian language official, numerous newspapers and periodicals, published during the period of its rule, insisted on phonetically orthographic principle emphasizing its advantage over etymologically orthographic solutions. In orthographic discussions certain resistance to introducing...

By HAZEMA NIŠTOVIĆ

First pre-Islamic fragments of poetry are registered in the fifth and sixth centuries before the occurrence of Islam. These fragments show a very rich and developed poetic tradition. The Qur`an has a negative attitude towards idolatry and the pre-Islamic poetry and poets excepting those who accepted Islam and continued their poetic journey respec...

By BILAL HASANOVIĆ

Very little literature is devoted to the effects of social risks in the social organization of the skyscrapers that are consistently associated with social disorganization. Some studies prove that crime, for example, as an aspect of social disorganization, strengthens the energy of a community, while others show that it leads to fragmentation. Draw...

By ALISABRI ŠABANI

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

Subjective factors have great significance for introducing inclusion into schools. The hypothesis of this paper is that teachers’ attitudes can have great impact on the realisation of inclusive education since they are the main bearers of upbringing and educational process, and of admitting children with special needs in regular classes. The aim o...

By ŠAĆIRA MEŠALIĆ, IZET PEHLIĆ, MUHAREM ADILOVIĆ

Insights into relevant scientific theoretical sources have indicated the existence of educational values of musical content, since it evokes emotions, and various emotions stimulate different thoughts, reactions and behavior. Furthermore, it has been concluded that music education presents an important part of overall esthetic and artistic educatio...

By KRISTINA PRKIĆ-PALAVRA, IZET PEHLIĆ

A dome on the rock is the first monumental masterpiece of Islamic architecture in the Umayyad time. Like the Big Mosque in Damascus it was raised on different authentic elements of Syria and Mesopotamia and on the inspiration that once used to be suppressed, but which was released by Islam. This is the work of the mentality ruled by a cosmic feeli...

By NUSRET ISANOVIĆ

In the last few centuries, European colonialism replaced, neutralized, and minimized local political, social, economic, legal, and educational institutions in the Muslim world, and thus it, undoubtedly, became a chalenge for Islamic religion and culture. Exactly this new state produced reformers who tried to insure an Islamic basis for educationa...

By ŠEFIK KURDIĆ

A shift from a paradigm focused on content and a teacher as a transmitter of that content, to a paradigm focused on learning outcomes or competence, has been conditioned by a change in considering humans as active participants in their own life, for which the efforts of psychology in presenting self-regulation as a mechanism of assuming an active r...

By ELDAR ČERIM

Adolescent delinquency is an increasing problem in all societies. The United Nations recognized this problem as an emergency and in order to prevent this phenomenon they adopted Guidelines for Preventing Adolescent Delinquency in 1990, better known as Rijjad Guidelines. The Guidelines consist of measures for primary, secondary and tertiary preven...

By SUADA BULJUBAŠIĆ

The aim of the paper is to make a comparative analysis of the quality of leadership among imams and religion teachers, i.e. based on the attitudes of imams and religion teachers to conclude whether there is a difference in the frequency of application of different leadership styles. We used a method of theoretical analysis, a descriptive-analytical...

By DERVIŠ VREŠLIJA, SAFET BEGANOVIĆ

We learn how to speak as we learn anything else in our life. The possibility of occurrence of speech deformities that are difficult to correct is decreased when the development of speech is planned and done systemically. Even in preletter phase of study children should be trained to communicate fluently, correctly and nicely. Basic speech component...

By HAZEMA NIŠTOVIĆ

The aim of this paper was by relying on the relevant theoretical sources to enlighten the role and significance of counting-out rhymes in the development of preschool children’s musical abilities. The starting point was the fact that contemporary music pedagogy more often maintains the stance that all children are quite musically talented and capab...

By INDIRA MEŠKIĆ

This paper elaborates on how the scholars of the Hanafi School of Law theoretically considered the clear meaning of the legislative text (wāḍiḥ) and how the Hanafis categorized it. Out of the four categories: ẓāhir, naṣṣ, mufassar and muḥkem, this paper deals with the first two. Naming examples, the paper presents the use of these categories in the...

By ŠUKRIJA RAMIĆ

The aim of the paper was to present five models explaining the structure of child temperament, to point to the determinants of child temperament as well as the methods and the importance of determining characteristics of child temperament types. The paper describes five models or theoretical approaches explaining the structure of child temperament,...

By ALMIRA ISIĆ-IMAMOVIĆ

The Islamic educational poll (expert board) had the task of studying and offering solutions to a number of religious-educational and general educational questions in the field of elementary education, of which some had been ‘inviolable’ for centuries – such as secular education of female Muslim children, considering that strong opposition from pare...

By BILAL HASANOVIĆ

The aim of this paper was to examine the quality of the development of ecological awareness through Islamic Education at schools, i.e. based on Islamic Education teachers' stances to determine the extent to which ecology-related content in elementary school textbooks stimulates the development of students' ecological awareness, and to examine the t...

By NERMIN TUFEKČIĆ

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

Social issue is one of the most prominent issues of the modern age. Moreover, when Muslim history is critically examined, it is noticed that this issue was a stumbling-stone or a touchstone for the Muslim mind in numerous stages of history. Muslim believers were always, more or less involved in social and political life of their Muslim community wh...

By ESMIR HALILOVIĆ

Bearing in mind last efforts of Arabian linguists directed towards numerous studies and papers for the purpose of a more correct understanding of linguistic uniqueness of the hamza consonant, especially on phonetically- phonological and orthographical level of words, as well as disagreement among modern and classical grammarians concerning evaluat...

By MEJRA SOFTIĆ

This paper presents a part of the theoretical and empirical research related to the topic of lifelong learning in the context of sustainable development. In order to contribute to the acceptance of the global concept of sustainability and its implementation in practice, in the theoretical part we define the term sustainable development, and we emph...

By FATIMA MUHAMEDAGIĆ, AMIR ĐULIĆ

As a basic element of grammatical predicate category, the nominal sentence predicate in literary arabic language is specified by important structural, morphological and syntactict features. These faetures result from traditional rules deep rooted in arabic syntax, according to them the arabic grammarians in their general sentence classification int...

By MEJRA SOFTIĆ

The results of scientific research show the following: everyone who was in Sarajevo during the siege (1992–1995) has certain consequences (with moderate symptoms that are controlled), a small number of people have some manifestations of the disease, but unfortunately, there are those who have a complicated form of PTSD. On the other hand, those who...

By ZEMIR SINANOVIĆ

This work gives a short survey on formation of institutions in which knowledge was acquired and spread, during the Islam history. It mentions an embryo from which all types of such institutions developed : 1. Teaching basic principles of the faith and hadīth which it initiates 2. Khaliph Omar (r.a.). The teaching took place in mosques built in newl...

By MUHAMED BUSULADŽIĆ

Prikaz djela: Mehmed Kico, Ogledi u poetici prevođenja – u svjetlu iskustava o arapskome jeziku (El-Kalem – Fakultet islamskih nauka u Sarajevu, Sarajevo, 2009)...

By MEJRA SOFTIĆ

This paper examines Hanafī legal school theoretical interpretations of the logical and legal meaning of the legislative text (dalālatu-n-naṣṣ) and the consequences of such an interpretation on the legal norms that the Hanafis came to with their ijtihād. At the beginning, the question of possible textual indications (ed-delalāt) of legislative texts...

By ŠUKRIJA RAMIĆ

Juvenile delinquency is one of serious problems in our society. The problem of recidivism (reversion) is becoming more present among juvenile delinquents. Causes of recidivism should be sought among factors that lead to juvenile delinquency, but in/appropriate social reaction should be pointed out as well. The reason for not facing this problem mor...

By SUADA BULJUBAŠIĆ

The interests and system of individual values is a special domain of human functioning which is mostly influenced by the closest social surrounding. Individuals regard different values with unequal importance and that way value hierarchy is formed. Due to cognitive development the value hierarchy is gradually changing during adolescence. Consideri...

By IZET PEHLIĆ

The possibility to be realized verbal functions using some defined verbal nouns is considered to be specific morphological and sintax appearance in arabic language. All deverbal nouns – infinitives, participles, adjectives and noun of preeminence – have, in some different degree, functions like that. The participles are separated as nouns by the mo...

By MEJRA SOFTIĆ

Derviš ef. Spahić occupies a special place among Islamic scholars in our region. It is said that great nations have institutions and small – great individuals who ensure the continuation of their nation by their extraordinary sacrifice. This outstanding scholar held speeches, wrote, read and studied, in particular the Qur’an and hadith. He organize...

By SAFET HUSEJNOVIĆ

Shaih Se’id Havva is an outstanding personality among contemporary Islamic scholars. With his total commitment, and especially his written works, he gave crucial contribution to the affirmation of contemporary Islam and Islamic thought. Living in the 20th century, the time of great turmoil, he truly identified himself with the problems that contemp...

By SAFVET HALILOVIĆ

Different attitudes towards defining mursal hadith have been present since the second century of hijra and period of Ibn Qattan, up to the later hadith scholars, Ibn Abdu'l-Barra, Ibn Hajar Al-Asqalani and others. There are also differences in regards to validity of argumentation of these kinds of hadiths. The purpose of this paper is to elucidate...

By SALIH INDŽIĆ

Connecting hamza-wasla is defined as a special type of a bound grammatical morpheme. Its primary function is conditioned by phonetically-phonological rules and is manifested through facilitating the pronunciation of a certain word when, to a certain extent, it has some function in formally-grammatical changes but not in the creating a new meaning. ...

By MEJRA SOFTIĆ

The paper aims to present the taxonomies of self-presentation tactics, the instruments for investigating and measuring the forms of self-presentation, as well as the determinants of self-presentation. The paper presents and describes the taxonomies of self-presentation tactics developed by Jones and Pittman (1982), Tedeschi (1981), Tedeschi, Lindsk...

By ALMIRA ISIĆ-IMAMOVIĆ

Global changes in social dynamics which have affected countries of the European Union in the last decades of the 20th century, have resulted in the need to study phenomena such as biographies, life flows and regimes of transition. Differentiated social structure, institutional frameworks, cultural values and political activities provide different r...

By ELMA BEGAGIĆ

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 objective of the paper is to indicate the ways of giving psychological support to children after they experience the loss of a close person, such as a parent, a grandparent, a brother, a sister, a friend, their friend’s parent, a teacher or some other adult person or a child they know. Children’s understanding of death is associated with their ...

By ALMIRA ISIĆ-IMAMOVIĆ

Ever since the advent of Islam in these areas Bosniak Muslims have been members of the main stream of Islam (ar. Ehlu-s-sunne ve-l-jama, bos. Ehli-sunna) and when it comes to religious partial fiikh (ritual) matters they have followed one of the oldest mezhep (law schools) that originated in Islam, the hanefi mezhep. Thus, for almost six centuries,...

By SAFVET HALILOVIĆ

Regarding geographic position, natural and human resources and their general correlation in social processes, Sarajevo- Zenica region is the central territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Such geographic position makes it the core of Bosnian- Herzegovinian geographic area. This region controls considerable reserves of coal, forests, hydro-electric po...

By DŽEMAL NAJETOVIĆ

This paper treats a concept of risk and protective factors and their relation to prevention of behavioral disorders. The core of the concept is the fact that identifying risk and protective factors and recognizing their interrelation is the basis of well created prevention programs. Risk factors are all inner and environmental circumstances of an i...

By AZEMINA DURMIĆ

In one historical period the Bosniaks linked their literacy to oriental languages, especially Arabic, which they didn’t experience as something that was imposed upon them, but embraced it as the language of Islam and endeavoured to learn Arabic along with the native Bosnian language. Under conditions of strong oriental tradition, the Bosnian langua...

By HAZEMA NIŠTOVIĆ

Academic motivation implies an internal process that initiates and maintains activities aimed at reaching certain academic goals. The objective of this research was to explore the psychometric characteristics of the Academic Motivation Scale (AMS). The sample comprised 157 participants, high school students in the Sarajevo Canton. An item analysis ...

By ANELA HASANAGIĆ, NINA BOSANKIĆ

The aim of the paper is to indicate the potential of social action in generating positive changes within a local community. The special significance of the social action lies in the processes of reconstructions of societies that survived traumatic experiences which resulted in the breaking of social connections and left a deep mark in their social ...

By MUHAREM ADILOVIĆ

It is widely spoken in the world about the problem of addiction, which has become a global problem of humanity, because it destroys the most vital part of the human population- adolescents. Every society, as much as it is financially strong and willing, finds programs, for prevention - to prevent or reduce negative phenomena in society, as well as ...

By EMINA BABIĆ, SELVEDINA BABIĆ, SENADA FEJZIĆ, ENISA PIRO-BEDAKOVIĆ

The peace treaty between hadrat Hasan and hadrat Muawiya brought peace to a new Islamic state. According to it, the authority was supposed to be given to hadrat Hasan after hadrat Muawiya, who could not name the commander of the faithful after himself. However, hadrat Muawiya did not adhere to the treaty, but introduced a hereditary monarchy and na...

By MINA VALJEVAC, MENSUR VALJEVAC

The paper is based on the idea that speech and language development of preschool children represents a precondition for the overall child development as well as a significant determinant of successful schooling. The aim of the paper was to develop a questionnaire on the use of speech games to stimulate children’s speech and language development and...

By DELILA RAMIĆ, AMINA ODOBAŠIĆ, AMINA PEHLIĆ

Studying of dialects takes an important place in Arabic linguistics. It is a significant fact from two aspects: First – For a long time dialects were considered “spoiled” variants of literary language and therefore serious discussions about them were avoided. Second – Such opinion was finally overcome and because dialects are means of everyday com...

By MEJRA SOFTIĆ

The subject of this research was an investigation of critical thinking development in the classes of Islamic Religious Education. The aim of the research was to find out whether there is a statistically significant difference in the quality of school life, school climate and students’ participation in class activities between traditional classes an...

By IZET PEHLIĆ, MAIDA MAHMUTOVIĆ

For a long time bribe and corruption have complicated social relations throughout the world, and very early the have become a part of Muslim social life. For some scientists the existence of these phenomena was the key reason for the decline of the Ottoman Empire. This paper does not discuss neither the history of bribe and corruption in the Muslim...

By ESMIR HALILOVIĆ

This paper considers the issue of interpretation (ta’weel) of original texts of Shari’ah in the spirit of traditional teaching. In the introduction the author emphasises the significance of knowing this issue through history and present day. After explaining linguistic meaning, the author describes a meaning of ta’weel in the tradition of selefus-s...

By ŠEFIK KURDIĆ

Qur’anic terms de'ā, jed'ū, da'vetun, du'āu and their derived forms have been used in over two hundred ayats that speak about belief in Allah, Righteous Path and Truth. In these ayats people are invited to advocate Truth, to do good deeds, and to avow that they are Muslims. They emphasize Allah’s closeness to people. He requests for people to addr...

By BILAL HASANOVIĆ

Recent researches show that age-mates are an important agent, not only for personality socializing but also for personality development in general. Age-mate relations are unique because they are characterized by equality (that we cannot find in a parent-child or a teacher-child relation) and reciprocity (an individual is influenced by its age-mates...

By ANELA HASANAGIĆ

The Qur’anic verses and prophetic traditions confirm the physical, ethical and universal perfection of a man. The highest level of perfection belongs to Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, and to his righteous successors. Every man, according to the Sufi teaching, can potentially become perfect, while the main purpose of a perfect man is to serve ...

By MENSUR VALJEVAC

In this article the author describes the influence of the French language on the English language and the influx of French words through the centuries. The author further classifies the French loanwords according to the different branches of social activities. Some words are explained in more detail in order to show their relation to the original F...

By EMINA MANDRA

Play is not only an enjoyable activity with which a child fills his/her free time, but it presents a very imprtant factor in promoting the psychological development of children. Playing, children learn about the world in which they live as well as about their own positon in it. Play encourages the physical, cognitive, socio-emotional and moral deve...

By SENIJA TAHIROVIĆ

The Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) drew the attention of Catholics to human dignity of non-Christian believers who have right to their religious identity. After the Council Popes Paul VI, John Paul II and Benedict XVI established and supported the Pontifical Council for Interreligious dialogue with the task to study other religions as they perc...

By MATO ZOVKIĆ

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

This paper discusses the theoretical construct of social climate in prison within penal institutions whose significance was emphasised by R. H. Moos in many of his works. The social climate of a penal institution is defined as the totality of mutual relations between prisoners and as their relationship to the institution, taking into account the im...

By ALISABRI ŠABANI

This paper presents a short overview of the history of the English language and its expansion through borrowing of words from other languages. The borrowed words are referred to as ‘loanwords’. Unlike any other language, English vocabulary consists of 70% ‘loan words’. The history of English and thus ‘borrowing’ is divided into four periods: Old E...

By MUHAMED PAŠANBEGOVIĆ

Social support refers to the benefits one is capable of receiving from relationships with other people. Family as a primary unit is the one that should be the greatest source of all forms of social support. However, young people sometimes do not feel that their family is the source of that kind of support, so it could be said that perceived and act...

By ANELA HASANAGIĆ

The paper discussed a complex and insufficiently researched social phenomenon, namely violence against the elderly. The aim of the research was to describe, investigate and explain the social causes of violence against the elderly, and to offer proposals for solving the phenomenon of violence against the elderly in Bosnia and Hercegovina. The follo...

By SENA DRUŽIĆ, SMAILA BALIĆ-RAHMANOVIĆ

Proportions, intensity and diversity of dimensions of the current global crisis oblige every individual to contribute to determine its causes in accordance with his own intellectual engagement. This paper attempts to determine micro factors that influence initiation and orientation of human behaviour as a fundamental catalyst of the crisis. In that...

By MUAMER NEIMARLIJA

A good translation from one language into another is one of the most difficult intellectual as well as scientific challenges. With the development of language as a living tissue of every ethnic and cultural community there comes a need for occasional review, correction, addition and improvement of existing translations. In this paper, we deal with ...

By MNESUR VALJEVAC

The paper discusses Bosniaks as territorially, historically, linguistically and civilizationally transparent and authentic people of Bosnia and Herzegovina as well as the place of Bosnian language in contemporary Bosnia and Herzegovina. It points out the significance of extralinguistic factors that shape Bosnian language and its speakers. The pape...

By NAILA VALJEVAC

The aim of this study was to validate the questionnaire of the quality of integration of a subject into the school curriculum. For this purpose, 200 teachers of Religious education and 200 teachers of other elementary school subjects were examined in a survey on the quality of integration of a subject into the school curriculum, and the content of ...

By IZET PEHLIĆ, ANELA HASANAGIĆ, EMINA GRABUS

This paper elaborates on how the scholars of the Hanafi School of Law theoretically considered mufesser and muḥkem. Mufesser and muḥkem represent two out of four categories (ẓāhir, naṣṣ, mufassar and muḥkem) in the categorization of the clear meaning of the legislative text (wāḍiḥ) in the Hanafi school. Naming examples, the paper analyses the use o...

By ŠUKRIJA RAMIĆ

Allah’s revelation through the Qur’an and the Messenger, s.a.w.s., is an inexhaustible sea. In this paper we intended these two sources to be dominant. In His Revelation Book Allah says that Ibrahim s.a.w.s. asked Him: "Our Lord! send amongst them an Messenger of their own, who shall rehearse Thy Signs to them and instruct them in scripture and wis...

By MENSUR VALJEVAC

A new strategic management system, if it’s adequately implemented, can change an entire organization in a way to became more effective and efficient, and the most of strategic management authors and practicers agree that implementation of an organizational strategy is more difficult than its formulation. In today’s dynamic, highly competitive envir...

By ELVIR ČIZMIĆ, IZET PEHLIĆ

During WWII the German fascists committed genocide against the non-Germanic peoples, especially the Jews. Many innocent people were expelled from their homes, physically and psychologically tortured, and a great number of them were hanged or burned alive. During the aggression on Bosnia and Herzegovina a far more atrocious genocide was committed ag...

By ISMET DIZDAREVIĆ

Together with calligraphy and arabesque architecture is considered the most authentic artistic form of Islam. It takes the central place in the hierarchy of its art. Islamic architecture as a special art of constructing and organizing area in a particular way conveys the spirit of “new” religion. It represents the development and numerous complexit...

By NUSRET ISANOVIĆ

In contrast to the traditional patocentric practice of treating psychotic disorders including schizophrenia, in the modern mental health concept a bio-psycho-social approach is emphasized, being characterized as comprehensive, integrative and above all humane. Psychosocial counseling of schizophrenic patients as a necessary form of intervention occ...

By ELMA BEGAGIĆ, INELA ŠEHIĆ-TORLAKOVIĆ, ALMIRA ISIĆ-IMAMOVIĆ

The specific characteristic of the mental constitution of humans and jinns, in comparison to other creatures of Allah, is the freedom of will. The principle of human free will is displayed through their constructive or destructive behavior toward themselves and/or their overall environment. Taking into consideration the origin of will, it might be ...

By MUAMER NEIMARLIJA

This paper was based on the fact that educators’ social communicative competences are insufficiently discussed in professional literature, and that there is no research instrument testing them. Therefore, the goal of this paper was to develop and then empirically validate the Scale for the Assessment of Educators’ Social Communicative Competences. ...

By NAIRA JUSUFOVIĆ, ANELA HASANAGIĆ, IZET PEHLIĆ

The aim of the research is to determine the overall presence of Orientalisms in the textbook of Islamic religious education for the eight grade, as well as the most common context of their use, the exact number of Arabisms in the total corpus of marked Orientalisms, and the percentage of Arabisms in relation to marked Orientalisms. On the other han...

By ISMET BURAJIĆ

The subject of interest in this paper is derived from the domain of the psychology of creativity. The objective of the study was to investigate the relationship between the degree of verbal creativity and school achievement of young school-age students, so that on the basis of the obtained results we might provide some guidelines as well as attempt...

By EMINA TALIĆ-HAKANOVIĆ

Repetition of the same lexical root in two or more words related to the syntactic level is the linguistic phenomenon known in oral and written Arabic language expression. The paper presents the nature of research of this phenomenon in the classical and modern Arabic linguistic thought. The research shows that the classics touched upon same-root syn...

By MITHAT JUGO

Mehmed ef. Handžić, (1906-1944) was a prominent Bosnian scholar with an imposing opus in different fields. The uniqueness of his works lies in the fact that he was the only one, in modern history of Bosnian Muslims, to interpret the Holy Qur’an in Arabic, and to treat the ayats with sharia background (ajatul-ahkam). His important interpretations ar...

By HALIL MEHTIĆ

In this paper the author describes and analyzes central features of Islam and Muslim-Christian relations in Norway. By close observation of the tension between interreligious solidarity and aggressive identity politics, the author highlights some central features of the trust-building Christian-Muslim dialogue in Norway. He also notes how anti-Isla...

By LEIRVIK ODDBJØRN

The paper treats the notion of religious upbringing and its presence in schooling systems of European countries and in the schooling system of Bosnia and Herzegovina. A school subject that treats the field of religious upbringing in educational systems in Europe has different names, and in our speaking area that subject is called ‘religious studies...

By ADMIR ČERIM

This paper treats the field of religion teaching curriculum assuming that stronger changes in the content would make a step forward to a more fruitful and better curriculum. The proposal for changes is directed toward introducing content which would be more familiar and important for religion students of a certain age, as well as towards connecting...

By EDINA VEJO

This paper examines the treatment of copyright under Shari’ah law. In the first part of the paper, occasions and time in which copyright is mentioned are indicated, as well as the first works on copyright in Shari’ah law. Then, the three institutions which apply collective ijtihaad are presented, as well as their attitudes towards the copyright iss...

By AHMED PURDIĆ

The paper is based on the idea that encouraging proper speech and language development is important for the overall children development. It has been determined that there are numerous methods and activities for encouraging speech and language development that educators can use in their work. The aim of this research was to investigate the educato...

By AIDA TELJIGOVIĆ, AMINA PEHLIĆ

Ḥasan ibn Muṣṭafā al-Būsnawī al-Madanī, Hasan Bošnjak, was born in Medina in the last decade of the 12th century AH, and he wrote in the first half of the 13th century (the end of the 18th and the first half of the 19th century). With regards to the year of Hasan Bošnjak’s death, we might assume that he died in the mid-13th century AH. Analyzing hi...

By SEMIR REBRONJA

A few Quranic verses implicitly prohibit uncertainty in contracts, while hadith texts explicitly prohibit it. The analysis of primary sources of Islamic law and the views of eminent scholars show that uncertainty in contracts is tolerated in situations where there is a need for the contract and where the potential harm from the risks and uncertaint...

By HAKIJA KANURIĆ

The aim of the research was to make a socio-pedagogical description of the minors’ causal attributions for their own delinquent behavior, based on the attitudes expressed by juvenile delinquents. Moreover, the aim was to reveal whether there is a statistically significant correlation between internal and external factors of delinquent behavior. A ...

By IZET PEHLIĆ, JAKUB HASIĆ, SUAD ORLIĆ

In order to light up certain micropedagogical relations in this paper, we try to look at education through the prism of the peculiarities of interaction of essential factors of the educational process - educator and educatee. In doing so, the focus of our interest is on the explanation of educator’s obligations arising from the legality of interper...

By MUAMER NEIMARLIJA

Having considered didactic and methodic work of Hamdija Mulić, we can say that he, with his thought and immediate teaching praxis, has modernized work in religion teaching. The religion teaching methodic should show us how to plan and execute curricula in a systematically founded and organized manner. This applies to the both: maktabs and regular s...

By REFIK ČATIĆ

Heraclitus is one of the most influential and most controversial thinkers in the human history. His ideas had an impact on the formation and further development of some of the most important and most specific concepts in philosophy, such as idea, dialectics, logos, eternal return, etc. He exerted a significant influence over all great philosophers ...

By SEDAD DIZDAREVIĆ, MENSUR VALJEVAC

This issue is not of only philosophical character apart from Quranic-Sunni texts. The issue started inside a circle of Islamic society where Islamic texts were the foundation for everything in their lives and way of thinking. They were even the main trait of a Muslim personality. The domain of divine in the way of an individual’s reasoning should b...

By ZUHDIJA ADILOVIĆ

In generative grammar, questions with wh-question word in the English language are usually named wh-questions, because all wh-words, with the exception of ‘how’, begin with consonants ‘wh’ in written English. However, a further distinction needs to be made between wh-questions in which wh-word has the grammatical function of being the subject and t...

By AMNA BRDAREVIĆ-ČELJO

Islamic manuscript books had an over-eminent role in the spreading of literacy and dissemination of knowledge of Islamic provenance in Bosnia and Herzegovina not only among ulemah circles but rather among ordinary people in general. Those facts are proved by several thousands of such books which are preserved in national and foreign collections, mo...

By ENES KUJUNDŽIĆ

This paper considers the issue of interpretation (ta’weel) of original texts of Shari’ah in the spirit of traditional teaching. In the introduction the author emphasises the significance of knowing this issue through history and present day. After explaining linguistic meaning, the author describes a meaning of ta’weel in the tradition of selefus-s...

By ŠUKRIJA RAMIĆ

Our educational system has broken away from the socialist doctrine of upbringing, but it hasn’t been consistent in adoption of new ideas, nor has it integrated itself, in an organised manner into the European developments, which are geared towards learning for the 21st century. The dominant dimension of social development is global education as a g...

By DŽEVDETA AJANOVIĆ

Inclusion as a relatively new concept and a way of consideration in the organization of a modern teaching system and school arose out of a necessity to eliminate every type of segregation among students. According to some leading theoreticians of this field, inclusive education is the way to enable students with special needs to incorporate into re...

By AMEL ALIĆ

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

No matter how insufficient it is to fully respect and accept others in accordance with one’s own system of references, tolerance is seen as a universal norm for existence and one of the main modes of human sociability. It is not the product of only one culture or a characteristic of only one, such as modern, epoch. Tolerance presents, mutatis mutan...

By NUSRET ISANOVIĆ

It has been noted that without the appropriate adverbial modification some passive participles are not acceptable in the attributive position in English: e.g. *a found suitcase, *a killed young man, *a built apartment block, as opposed to some passive participles that are not subject to this restriction: e.g. an abandoned village, a complicated man...

By KAMIAH ARNAUT-KAROVIĆ

The goal of this research paper is examining the extent end way of spending free time of lower classes primary students, as well as to define the attitudes of teacher and parents towards students’ free time. This research had been done in Osnovna škola KŠC ¨Sveti Pavao¨ Zenica and Osnovna škola ¨Meša Selimović¨ Zenica in two fourth-grade classes ea...

By REFIK ČATIĆ, ANA PAVLOVIĆ

The text discuses the notion of method in Islamic education.It offers broader understanding of the method based on the existence of implicational relation between decisions regarding method and content in the education. Scientific intervention in the area of content is represented through two complemental approaches. The first is from the position ...

By EDINA VEJO

Allah honored people with the Revelation and it is a great blessing for them. Reading the Qur'an by looking at it and memorizing it, as well as thinking about its meanings, are among the most valuable things that a religious person can do during life. The aim of this paper is to present hifz classes at Islamic faculties, madrasahs, and in student d...

By MAID IBRAHIMOVIĆ, SAFET HUSEJNOVIĆ

This paper attempts to elaborate on the Shafi’i school of law scholars’ theoretical interpretation of the acceptance of the opposite implicit meaning (mefhūmu-l- muhālefe) method in the ijtihad and the consequences of such interpretation on the derivation of legal regulations in that school. At the beginning of the paper, we briefly explain the dis...

By ŠUKRIJA RAMIĆ

The expansion of psychologists’ interests, for religious aspects of human existence, appeared a few decades ago, which is quite surprising, considering presumed importance of a religious domain in human life. However, despite a great interest for the phenomenon of religiosity this expansion in scientific study of religiosity did not bring any impor...

By DŽENAN SKELIĆ

In architecture, human need to be a man is most vividly realized, but his desire for beauty, perfection and universality is projected as well. It encompasses his thoughts about the Supreme, himself and the universe, and expresses “an objective identity of a concept and things”. This paper develops a discourse on architecture as a universal form of ...

By NUSRET ISANOVIĆ

This paper investigates how successful B2 level English language learners (ELLs), high school students are in translating a group of most common false friends (FFs) from English to BCS and vice versa and examines whether they are more successful in translating absolute or partial FFs. In line with the classification by Otwinowska-Kasztelanic (2015...

By EDINA RIZVIĆ-EMINOVIĆ, MELISA BUREKOVIĆ, ADNAN BUJAK

This paper explores the theoretical interpretations of the pronounced meaning of the legislative text (al-manṭūq) in the Shafii school of law and the consequences of such an interpretation for the rules that the Shafiis came to through their legal reasoning (ijtihād). At the beginning of the work, the discipline of linguistics is explained in the c...

By ŠUKRIJA RAMIĆ

The correct comprehension and understanding of the grammatical structure of phrasemes is a complex issue imposed on non-native speakers of theTurkish language who study grammatical structures of modern Turkish language. The aim of this paper is to analyze the grammatical structure of nominal somatic phrasemes in modern Turkish language. The analysi...

By EDINA SOLAK, MIRZA BAŠIĆ, SELMA ČUSTO

Theoretical and empiric research results prove that noise harms not only physical but also mental health of people. Long exposition to strong noise provokes inner tension and anxiety, which often leads to damage of organ of hearing. The consequences of noise are obvious in neuro-vegetative disorder. People exposed to the noise, which is beyond poss...

By ISMET DIZDAREVIĆ

The aim of this short essay is to present an attempt to redefine conceptual distinction between civic and ethnic nationalism through a Rogers Brubaker’s dissertation, as well as to extend and deepen the publics’ interest in this American author. Brubaker works as a sociology department head at the University of Los Angeles. He has written many book...

By ŠAĆIR FILANDRA

In this paper, we present the origins of Hadith sciences or the Terminology of Hadith derived from the Qur'anic and Sunna sources which are the primary sources of all Islamic sciences. We write about an obligation to follow the Sunna, and the relation of the sciences with other Islamic disciplines. The importance of the study of the sciences, that ...

By ESMIR HALILOVIĆ

The aim of the research was to investigate the psychological role and significance of artistic creative expression in older age through the personal experience of people who paint or mold as a hobby. Seven participants (six female and one male), aged 65-69, took part in the research. A qualitative research method, i.e. a semi-structured interview, ...

By ALMIRA ISIĆ-IMAMOVIĆ, ADIS ELIAS FEJZIĆ

Today we witness that English has already virtually taken one of the crucial roles on the global stage. Therefore, this paper´s goal is to explore the change that the English Language use has undergone in today´s globalized world that has led to the birth of a new construct in the field of English Language conceptualization, namely English as a Lin...

By ELMA DEDOVIĆ-ATILLA, VILDANA DUBRAVAC

The familiarity with the problem of social perception ought to be an integral part of individual work with every individual – without which one cannot except success on the level of an individual who is confronting his/her own self, raising the level of correction, learning from earlier experiences or correcting false beliefs. The ability of adequa...

By AMEL ALIĆ

Rethinking the Act of Being has been a central issue for Islamic philosophers. They have considered that the Act of Being is God, that it is another name for God. Supporting the metaphysics of the Act of Being, or the metaphysics of Essence, the Islamic philosophers have identified the Act of Being with reality or on the other hand Essence with rea...

By HASAN DŽILO

Modern syntactical researches conducted by Arabs are under great influence of traditional grammar. That as a consequence has various methodological approaches to interpretation of a sentence, its definitions and classifications. Even though some classical Arabic grammarians make semantic distinction between terms ğumla and kelam, today they are per...

By MEJRA SOFTIĆ

The theme of this paper is life-long study on sports. It is a research paper and its aim is to examine if there is statistically important difference in examinees’ attitudes regarding the way sport influences life, the reasons for enrolling the Trainer Academy, expectations, education quality and the ways of permanent improving. Another aim of the ...

By REFIK ČATIĆ

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

This paper presents interpretative systematization of inscriptions, known as tarih, on sacral objects of Bosnians. This is my humble contribution to the study of traditional literary values and their analysis related to the religious convictions they originate from. Beside thematic classification, we talk about messages and morals of tarihs, their ...

By MURIS BAJRAMOVIĆ

Even though there is a widespread opinion that all the regulations of Shariah inheritance law are present in the Qur’an, in this paper we show that one part of these regulations is based on the Sunnah, and in some cases on the ijtihad solutions. One of the issues considered by contemporary Islamic jurists is the issue of the right of a child whose ...

By AHMED PURDIĆ, SENAD ĆEMAN

One of the valid definitions of bio-ethics as integrating biological knowledge with ¨the knowledge about human value systems¨(Van Rensselaer Potter) necessarily refers to a great task confronting this recent science. Accordingly, reflections upon a man-Internet relation seen as a new community and net-ethics meaning searching for ¨conscience¨ of vi...

By SPAHIJA KOZLIĆ

The practice of accurate pronunciation of the Qur'anic harf, lengths, idgams, etc., is certainly a matter of skill in tilavet, and there is no skill without systematic work and practice. The practical, sound-related aspect of reciting the Qur'an is only one segment of Tajweed, i.e. its artistic dimension. However, when we say 'ilm et-tajweed', we r...

By DŽEVAD ŠOŠIĆ

This paper deals with semantic intentions of the absolute object in the Qur’anic text. The aim is to establish frequent morphosyntactic patterns by which the absolute object is realized in the Qur'anic text, and then to offer a linguistic description of the role the absolute object plays in shaping the semantic dimension of the Qur'anic text, and b...

By MIDHAT JUGO

Even though shaykh Halid effendi Salihagić was not known to public, he made a great contribution to preserving and developing religiosity and spirituality in our area, between the last two wars. His difficult life and trials have not prevented the development of his personal religiosity and spirituality, as well as his influence on his disciples an...

By MENSUR VALJEVAC

This paper attempts to explore the issue of multifunctional interpretation of syntactic elements in Arabic grammar. Thus, the aim of the research is to investigate the reasons underlying different grammatical interpretation of the same syntactic element in Arabic grammar. The focus is on an indefinite noun in the accusative case, which performs var...

By MITHAT JUGO

The aim of this study is quite layered and could be expressed, in a broader sense, through the phrase: deconstruction of human nature in the Qur'an. In a more specific sense, this paper intends to argue for the effectiveness of the complementarity of the roles of "khalif" and "abd" (a ruler and a slave) in a man, in the three-dimensional tension be...

By ADIL MAKIĆ

This work analyses the basic concepts in the field of planning and the development of an educational program. The term curriculum has been avoided in our educational public, or it had multiple interpretations that were not only characteristic for our pedagogical theory and practice but also for a significant number of other countries. Its numerous...

By IZET PEHLIĆ

After the Prophets death, Muslims kept their community compact until the period of Ebu Bekr and Omer. After the assassination of khalif Osman, confrontations and bloodsheds started among Muslims. The unhappy events undermined the strong khalif authority and Islam and Muslims faced a serious situation and temptation. Different opinions about the iss...

By AMEL SARAJLIĆ

This paper shortly presents some observations on a sign in general in order to, through Saussure’s definition of linguistic sign as a synthesis of signifiant and signifié, draw attention to the importance of language, and recognize semiotic nature of some Qur’an ayats. Ideas and aconstic images like the units of linguistic sign are inseparable. The...

By AMINA PEHLIĆ

The male-female relationship constitutes an eternal enigma analysed in different ways throughout the history. The status of women through the ages has been significantly different from the status of men; the domestic domain of their home has been regarded as a female space, while the public life has been reserved for males. Women have been invisibl...

By VILDANA DUBRAVAC

This paper aims to stress the importance of building rapport with young EFL (English as a foreign language) learners and to investigate the connection between student-teacher rapport and students’ achievement in an EFL classroom. It also treats some methods and approaches that should be used when teaching young language learners with respect to the...

By LEJLA ŽUNIĆ-RIZVIĆ, VILDANA DUBRAVAC

This paper aims to provide a brief overview of the past studies on negation, starting from Jespersen (1917) to the more recent ones that are elaborated within the generative grammar and based on Klima (1964). In the work of Klima (1964) and all subsequent works on the grammar of negation, such as Lasnik (1972), Pollock (1989), Laka (1990), Progovac...

By MELISA BUREKOVIĆ

Prikaz djela: Hifzija Suljkić, Sabrani tekstovi (Bosanska medijska grupa – BMG – Tuzla; Medžlis Islamske zajednice Zvornik, 2007)...

By BILAL HASANOVIĆ

The Qur'an is the primary source of Islamic law. General and special sharia norms are derived from its text. This aspect of the Qur'an has been the subject of interest of numerous Islamic scholars in the context of interpreting the normative ayahs - ajatu'l-ahkam. The Hajj is one of the five pillars of Islam. It is prescribed by the Qur'an and the ...

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One sign of the supernatural mission of the last Messenger of Allah’s (s) is the fact that he informed his Companions about everything that would take place before the Judgment Day, in the veracity of which many Muslims and non-Muslims have been convinced numerous times so far. The Qur’an talks indirectly, and the hadith unambiguously, about the ap...

By MENSUR VALJEVAC

The research included a suitable sample of students at the Department of Social Pedagogy in Zenica (N= 81), who completed a short socio-demographic survey and a Rokeach's Terminal Values Survey. Terminal values represent the goals of human existence, among which the following values might be distinguished: individual, collective, humane, and altrui...

By AMILA KADIĆ, MERSIHA JUSIĆ

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

The Prophet’s (s.a.w.s.) realisation of Qur’anic repression of alcoholism is marked by activities which aim at protecting an aim group from negative consequences of alcohol. That is characterized by revelation of four Qur’anic ayats- which represent phases of the Prophet’s (s.a.w.s.) work. The aim group is divided into two categories, depending on ...

By MELISA ZUKIĆ

Classical Arabic philologists analyzed alif more than any other letter. In their works alif was analyzed in the context of its original function, as a sign for consonant hamza, but also as a long vowel sign, which lead to numerous studies and discussions. Given the fact that most of them focused on the analysis of alif as a sign for consonant hamza...

By MEJRA SOFTIĆ

This review paper explores the use of miswak, a teeth-cleaning twig made from the Salvadora persica plant, in maintaining oral hygiene and preventing oral diseases. Various aspects of miswak are analyzed, including its historical significance, chemical composition, pharmacological characteristics, and beneficial effects on oral health. The paper al...

By EDIN SELIMOVIĆ, EMIR BEGAGIĆ, HAKIJA BEČULIĆ, MUHAREM ADILOVIĆ

As a global lingua franca, English has become a language of modern technologies, or, more precisely - a language of science and technology in general. Its influence on other languages is constantly growing and, consequently, a number of English loanwords in these languages is growing as well, opening the wide space for emergence of ‘false friends’....

By AIDA TARABAR

Over time with the development of human society, besides communication, language started being used in other domains, the media being one of them. Language, as the main means of the media, and the media through which language is spread and popularized among people are closely related and complementary. Media Arabic, which appeared with the foundati...

By AMRUDIN HAJRIĆ

Traditionally, lexicography and lexicology are considered to be the most developed disciplines in Arabic linguistics. During pre-Islamic period, Arabs were very concerned the the protection of the original Arabic vocabulary, and in the first centuries of an Islam expansion, the vocabulary of the literary arabic language was collected and compiled...

By MEJRA SOFTIĆ

Within the theoretical framework of cognitive linguistics and the theory of conceptual metaphor, this work analyses a certain number of idioms based on the same metaphor, suggesting that certain processes of world conceptualization and experience are still common for most speakers of one language, or that those processes are common for most members...

By MERSINA ŠEHIĆ, FEĐA IMAMOVIĆ

The theme of this paper is examining morals in the context of religion and we start out of the standpoint of their mutual dependency. It is a research paper and its primary goal is to examine to what extent the studying of religious teaching affects the defining of moral values. Considering the fact that research results could easily deviate from ...

By IZET PEHLIĆ, AMIR ŠARIĆ

BOOK REVIEW...

By MEHMED KICO, SAMIR BEGLEROVIĆ

Translation is a kind of a trial for the target language, a test of its expressive possibilities, but also an exam of the abilities and skills of a translator. Even the best translators refrained from translating “holy books”, due to the challenges of uniqueness of the form and as a precaution of potential sin and (or) blasphemy which translation c...

By NERMIN ŠUŠIĆ

In this paper we refer to the definition by which motor skills are those human skills that are involved in resolving motor tasks, and that determine successful movement. The primary aims of the paper were to ascertain whether the level of physical deformity affects the results the participants show on the tests of basic motor skills, as well as whe...

By ALMA NEZIROVIĆ

This paper discusses Ibn Kesir’s approach to Qira’at in Tafsir al-Qur’an al-Azim. In addition to the author’s biography in the introductory part, we emphasized the scientific significance of Ibn Kesir’s Tafsir, the status it has among classical tafsir works, as well as its presence in the local tradition of interpreting the Qur’an. In the main part...

By DŽEVAD ŠOŠIĆ

The theory of necessity (ḍarūra) questions the relations between norm and person, condition and regulation, permissible and forbidden, useful and harmful, variable and immutable, important and irrelevant. It is a comprehensive theory, applicable in all fields of Islamic law. In the theory of necessity, reason forms a whole with the Text, logic with...

By SENAD ĆEMAN

From the perspective of Islamic theological thought, every sin, in addition to otherworldly consequences, produces some damage in this world. Sins the effect of which is limited to an individual have the potential to affect negatively one’s spiritual and physical constitution, while sins in the sphere of interpersonal relationships destroy the soci...

By MUAMER NEIMARLIJA

As the science about society, from its very beginning, sociology has dealt with religion and its importance and function in a society. Social events and changes that have taken place in the area of Europe have contributed to bringing religion in the focus of many scholars, which shows that in the overall history of humankind it has been one of the ...

By ARMIN JAŠAREVIĆ

The role and significance of honourable companions in spreading Islam is great and significant. That is exactly why they have had a special place for all generations of Muslims. From the very arrival of Islam to this area, Muslims have showed great respect for the most honourable and chosen generation of Muslims. I have supported that relation towa...

By ZUHDIJA ADILOVIĆ

The aim of this paper is to examine the main accent features of Donji Kamičak dialect and to define their character. The reaearch was done in 2002 and 2005. Dictaphone, notebook, guided and semi-guided conversation were used for collecting data. Based on the analysis, it can be concluded that the Donji Kamičak dialect, according to its primary acc...

By AMINA PEHLIĆ

The purpose of the current paper was to investigate in detail Alija Nametak’s (1906–1987) national orientation expressed in his literary works, and to analyze the circumstances leading to such an orientation as well as its reflection on Nametak’s attitude toward language, particularly with regard to his nomination of language and attitude toward la...

By AMINA PEHLIĆ

Islam is primarily the religion of peace, it promotes love and obedience to the Supreme Lord, and then love and respect towards His creatures, and particularly humans as the most eminent creatures. Allah, the Exalted, vehemently condemns unlawful taking of other being’s life. Moreover, the Qur’an rejects the excessive use of force in retaliating ag...

By SAFET HUSEJNOVIĆ

The aim of this study was to determine the quality of integration of Religious education curriculum in primary school curriculum. The method of theoretical analysis and descriptive-analytical survey method were used. A survey of teachers' attitudes was the research technique. The Questionnaire of the quality of integration of subject curriculum in ...

By IZET PEHLIĆ, EMINA GRABUS

Good Water near Foča is the first pilgrimage in the Calendar of Marking Special Dates and Events by the Takvim of the Rijaset of the Islamic Community in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The author of the current paper aims to explain all aspects of the Good Water Pilgrimage, from introducing constituent elements of the Pilgrimage and analyzing folk tales a...

By ELVIR DURANOVIĆ

Our postmodern era is characterized by the ending of a University and disappearance of the idea of higher education. The awareness of the ending of a University should contain a clear image of its beginning. But that is not the case. Even after so much time, there are still opacities regarding the origin, forming and growth of the idea of a Univers...

By NUSRET ISANOVIĆ

The aim of this paper was to investigate the types of errors occurring in the speech of children before starting school, and in that regard to highlight the educators’ role in stimulating the proper speech development of children in a preschool institution. The study included sixty children from the older kindergarten group at the Public Institutio...

By AIDA TELJIGOVIĆ, AMINA PEHLIĆ

Although idolatry religion of pre-Islamic Arabs was directly opposite to absolute God's oneness, Islamic religion did not categorically deny pre-Islamic tradition. Depending on certain cusoms character, Islam accepted some of them, some were reformed and some were rejected or replaced. In this paper, by the method textual analysis of the Qur'an an...

By ELVIR DURANOVIĆ

The problem of violence among students is becoming more serious and it grips teachers, pedagogues and psychologists all over the world. The prevalence of violence is increasing every day and it assumes even greater negative effects. Violent behavior can cause many consequences such as: loneliness, depressive quality, sadness, fear, insecurity, low ...

By ANELA HASANAGIĆ

The aim of this paper was to investigate communication functions in preschool- aged children and based on their description to make the classification. The research was conducted on the basis of a qualitative analysis of audio-visual recordings of children's speech recorded during supervised and free kindergarten activities. A number of earlier st...

By AMINA PEHLIĆ, AMINA ODOBAŠIĆ, ANELA HASANAGIĆ

This paper is devoted to the process of translation and some of its aspects, such as the key factors involved in the process as well as its different dimensions and perspectives. When translating, the preference is usually given to only one of the factors involved in the translation process, which eventually determines the mode of translation as we...

By AMRUDIN HAJRIĆ

In our homeland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, there are different versions of Mushaf characterized by certain differences in the use of orthographic, tajweed as well as pause signs and symbols, i.e., diacritical marks. In this paper we will present the meaning and function of pause symbols in the Mushafs of the Medinan and Istanbul orthographic version...

By MENSUR MALKIĆ

The aim of this paper is to examine some aspects of perception of beauty in Islamic philosophy, especially the aspect related to the problem of cognition and being. There are different approaches of Islamic philosophers towards beauty. It depends on their aspect towards the issue of cognition and being which can be peripatetical, illuminationist or...

By HASAN DŽILO

Enrolment of students in a madrasa (secondary school founded by the Islamic Community) is traditionally done through entrance examinations. In Bosnia and Herzegovina there are 6 madrasas for which a unique entrance exam is prepared, which consists of tests of Mathematics, the Bosnian language and literature, History and Religious Education. For th...

By NEZIR HALILOVIĆ

Since Ilhamija is one of the most influential personalities of Bosnian culture at the end of Otoman period learning his intelectual and spiritual exertion becomes necessary in order to better undertand his importance for total social and cultural flow in Bosnia and Herzegovina at that time. Applying the deconstructional method of text analysis, Il...

By SEDAD DIZDAREVIĆ

The official penetration of some elements of Romanticism in Bosniak literature happened during the eighties of the 19th century, following the Austro- Hungarian occupation and the period of so-called deaf era in Bosniak literary creation. However, it would be wrong to conclude that the contribution of Bosniak tradition to the corpus of oral literat...

By IBNEL RAMIĆ

Verbs, as the most important open word class, and prepositions, holding the same status among closed classes, are involved into particular syntactic-semantic relations in the Arabic language. Despite that, verbs and prepositions, as meaningful units, have been treated separately in scientific analyses. Relevant classic grammar texts do not offer th...

By ZEHRA ALISPAHIĆ

This corpus-based study focuses on the nine English central modal verbs (can, could, will, would, may, might, shall, should, and must) across the two chosen genres of the COCA corpus – Spoken and Academic genres, which show the greatest number of differences in terms of genre characteristics, such as formality or intended audience. Because research...

By EDINA RIZVIĆ-EMINOVIĆ, ĐELALUDINA ŠUKALIĆ

Introducing moder technology and numerous inovations into educational process can radically change organization of educational process. Applying modern educational technology makes teaching process more interesting and efficient, and it adequately prepares the young for life. This turns the old ways of passive studying into active thinking and con...

By LEJLA HODŽIĆ

Based on the analysis of the Islamic religious education textbooks, this research aimed to explore the nature of content with respect to its formative and informative character, as well as to investigate the teachers’ stances about the character of the ecology content in the elementary school textbooks of religious education. The starting assumptio...

By NERMIN TUFEKČIĆ

The structure of multiple wh-questions differs significantly in the English and Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian language, firstly, with respect to the number of wh-phrases positioned at the beginning of the sentence and, secondly, with respect to the free vs. strict Superiority-obeying ordering of these wh-phrases. The gist of this article is the contras...

By AMNA BRDAREVIĆ-ČELJO

This paper deals with teaching management of different learning styles students use in the EFL classroom. It explores various types of learning styles and it provides directions that can help EFL teachers in better understanding of various learning preferences and in responding to different types of learners. Different types of learners are also tr...

By VILDANA DUBRAVAC, LEJLA ŽUNIĆ-RIZVIĆ

Through the architecture of mausoleum, the world will get to know some of the most magnificent works of Islamic art, which sometimes forms the impression that “beauty in itself carries the power of survival” (Malraux) and that by the sublimity and completeness of its aesthetic and artistic expression it justifies immortality. Some of these works o...

By NUSRET ISANOVIĆ

Dizzing changes characterize our everyday life. Although it may seem that changes are general in the formal organization of schooling system, they are not as noticable as in other life segments. Nevertheless, they directly affect schools and their key factors: children – teachers – curricula – parents. As a result, there is the issue of the need of...

By NEZIR HALILOVIĆ

At a time when information technology has a strong impact on society, it is important to identify the level of its influence on foreign language teaching and learning. The paper presents research into the effectiveness of English language computer aided instruction in high schools. The research is based on a twelve-week long project carried out in ...

By AIDA TARABAR, SENAID FEJZIĆ

The paper presents the way in which libraries of religious schools – madrassas operate and whether their work is satisfactory and in accordance with the standards. The results, which were obtained by administering a survey, will be presented and analyzed in detail, along with guidelines and instructions on how to change the current situation and to...

By EJLA ĆUROVAC

In the grammatical structure of the Turkish language, the ablative case suffix can also in certain contexts express causation. Thus, causative adverbial phrases can be derived by adding the ablative case suffix to noun phrases formed during the process of nominalization by transforming the initial clauses with finite predicates, where the function ...

By EDINA SOLAK, MIRZA BAŠIĆ, AMINA HADŽIMEJLIĆ

Language learning beliefs create a considerable impact on the students' behavior, and thus greately affect the final learning outcome. Therefore, there exists a compeling need to explore learners' beliefs, and in particular to specify the stances of those more successful learners, to provide accordingly a better learning envoronment for all student...

By ESMA LATIĆ, VILDANA DUBRAVAC

The topic of this paper is the linguistic phenomenon of negation with empasis on English non-verbal negation and its Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian translational equivalents (henceforth, BCS). In this paper theanalysis of negation is developed against the background of the Principles and Parameters framework, more specifically the more recent Minimalist...

By MELISA BUREKOVIĆ

The development of Krashen`s theory of second language acquisition has been disadvantaged due to the dispute over its untestable hypotheses. In his Monitor Model Krashen (1981; 1982; 1985) claims that linguistic competence can only be acquired subconsciously, while conscious learning mainly depends on learners’ mood and emotions at the time of lear...

By MERSAD DERVIĆ, NIZAMA SPAHIĆ

Healthy emotional and social development in childhood is an important predictor of an individual’s future academic success. Unfortunately, more than 20% of children have a developmental problem that occurs as a result of exposure to screen media. This research examines the potential risks of screen media among children, which are reflected in child...

By NUSRETA KEPEŠ

There are some differences in understanding the terms: upbringing example/role model/ideal. An upbringing example points at other people's success. He provides a basis for practical work. An upbringing role model is a person who puts into practice things he suggests to other people. Practice leads to positive results and success. A role model is ba...

By MELISA ZUKIĆ

Created in the 7th century, Uzrit love poetry or desert love poetry is inspired by love. It is named after the tribe to which poet Džemil (Ğamīl), one of the most famous love poets, belonged. In these poems, a lover spends his whole life in longing and absence, yearning for his beloved one. At the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centu...

By SEMIR REBRONJA

This paper presents a phenomenon of forms with the same root and their role in the Qur’anic text. The phenomenon is based on repetition of the same linguistic root in two or more words related on syntactic level. This linguistic appearance is a very important stylistic expression in the Qur’an with its numerous forms and features. The aim of the pa...

By MITHAT JUGO

Abstract The paper presents a case study – speech "errors", neologisms were recorded during the longitudinal monitoring of a child's speech, i.e. regular speech and language development from the third to the sixth year of life. The previously published work using the material collected during the same longitudinal monitoring analyzed "errors" in th...

By AMINA PEHLIĆ

Language accompanies people in time and space, but also in all their social environments and professional activities, which affects the language and leads to its stratification based on all these grounds, since various environments impose different language varieties we use to communicate. The extent to which a language is stratified is conditioned...

By AMRUDIN HAJRIĆ

The subject of this paper is the stylistic potential of the absolute object in the text of the Qur’an. Besides reference to the basic theoretical definition of the absolute object in Arabic grammar and Arabic stylistics, the paper researches the discipline of ornaments, 'ilm al-badī', and based on the Qur’anic text tries to identify frequent stylis...

By MIDHAT JUGO, AMRUDIN HAJRIĆ

Prikaz knjige: Mehmed Kico, Arapski jezik u prevođenju između Istoka i Zapada (El-Kalem, 2012)...

By ORHAN JAŠIĆ

One of the most significant figures of Bosniak cultural and literary revival during the period of Austro-Hungarian rule in Bosnia was certainly Safvet-beg Bašagić. With an exceptionally wide range of occupations and diverse activities in the field of culture and social and political activity in general, he enormously contributed to the affirmation ...

By IBNEL RAMIĆ, IKBAL SMAJLOVIĆ

The motif of dreams, in addition to the motif of a woman and space, is very significant and frequent in Andrić’s literary work. In fact, the motif of dreams presents a different way of realizing the motif of space, Andrić’s characters are equally realized through it, they live and act in it. This is the result of Andrić’s general interest in human ...

By IKBAL SMAJLOVIĆ

This paper analyzes morphological and semantic characteristics of postpositions, conjunctions and interjections in the philological encyclopedia Dîvânü Lügâti’t-Türk by Mahmud al-Kashgari. The analysis of grammatical and semantic structures of postpositions, conjunctions and interjections is based on an analytical and descriptive research method an...

By EDINA SOLAK, MIRZA BAŠIĆ

We encounter songs about a disguised girl in our oral tradition throughout the history of its recording – from Erlangen Manuscript, over Vuk Stefanovic Karadzic's collection, to the collections made in the second half of the twentieth century. In those songs a girl disguises as a man in most cases to replace her aged father in a battle. She fights ...

By IBNEL RAMIĆ

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By ADIL MAKIĆ

This paper is a review article providing an overview of five methods of English language teaching: Grammar-Translation Method (GTM), Direct Method, Audiolingual Method, Communicative Language Teaching (CLT), and Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT). For each method, a brief historical background is provided, followed by the aims, principles, techniq...

By MELISA BUREKOVIĆ, EDINA RIZVIĆ-EMINOVIĆ, MELISA PILAV

Within the methodological framework of a phono-stylistic analysis, with respect to one of its two main aspects, this paper offers an analysis of assonance and alliteration in English translations of the Bosniak ballad "Hasanaginica". Taking into account the limited scope of this paper, we analyzed these figures of sound on the examples of introduct...

By AMINA ARNAUTOVIĆ

Novel Zaynab by Egyptian author Muḥammad Ḥusayn Haykal has become a subject of interest for Arab and Western European scholars in the field of literature. This novel is interesting and important in many aspects, one of them being a skillful blend of traditional Arab literary heritage and European Romanticism elements Haykal presented in this novel....

By AZRA KAPETANOVIĆ

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By AMINA PEHLIĆ

This article discusses the use of prepositions zbog and radi in the Bosnian language as translation equivalents of the German preposition wegen based on a selected literary corpus. It is often the case in everyday speech that the difference in the meaning between these two prepositions is not noticed and often not understood by the native speakers ...

By AMELA ČURKOVIĆ

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By AJDIN HUSEINSPAHIĆ

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By ENES JULARDŽIJA

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By EMINA BABIĆ

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By AMINA ODOBAŠIĆ, IZET PEHLIĆ

Educational approach known as Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) has become one of the most popular approaches in foreign language teaching, especially in countries with developed educational systems. One of its main aims is to help learners develop thinking skills through their simultaneous studying of the foreign language and the con...

By AIDA TARABAR, VILDANA NESLANOVIĆ

The aim of this paper was to explore the accent of disyllabic feminine nouns of e-declension with a short ascending accent (type vòda and type žèna) in contemporary Bosnian standard language reference books and the standard language use, given the previously observed tendency towards losing accent alternations in a paradigm. Based on the comparati...

By AMINA PEHLIĆ

The paper presents sociological views on identity from terminological ambiguity to theoretical and functional openness in accordance with the needs of the individual and the society that is changing and evolving. From an interactionist point of view, identity is formed through communication and action; in the structuralist sense, it represents the ...

By MELISA ZUKIĆ

The review of the book „The importance of connectedness in student-teacher relationships: insights from the teacher connectedness project“ by Irene García-Moya Prikaz knjige „Važnost povezanosti u učitelj-učenik odnosima: uvid iz projekta povezanost učitelja“ autorice Irene García-Moya...

By EDINA NIKŠIĆ-REBIHIĆ