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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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