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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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