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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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