Muhammed Seid Serdarević as a muderris of Sultan Ahmed’s medresah in Zenica
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
QASIDA-I BURDA AND ITS AURA IN OUR CLIMATE
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
SABRANI RADOVI HIFZIJE SULJKIĆA
Prikaz djela: Hifzija Suljkić, Sabrani tekstovi (Bosanska medijska grupa – BMG – Tuzla; Medžlis Islamske zajednice Zvornik, 2007)...
By Bilal Hasanović
The first islamic educational survey (1910-1911)
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
Austro-Hungarian ocupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and new socially political, cultural and religioeducational state of affairs
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
History of the drina region medresahs in Zvornik
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
MESSAGE CONVEYED THROUGH SOME AYATS THAT INCLUDE DERIVED FORMS OF THE TERMS CALL, INVITE, REQUEST
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