The influence of qira’at on war law regulations
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
AN OVERVIEW OF STUDIES OF THE LINGUISTIC PHENOMENON OF NEGATION
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
Through the prism of linguistic sign
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
Importance of communication for professionalism in education
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
Elements of the foundation of foreign language teaching policies in bih (culture and cultural diversity)
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
Socio-political conditions of dialectics, division and basic linguistic features
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
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SOCIO-EMOTIONAL CLIMATE IN THE CLASSROOM AND STUDENTS’ SCHOOL SUCCESS
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
TROPES – FIGURES OF SPEECH IN BOSNIAN TRANSLATIONS OF THE QUR’AN
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
The attitude of ‘Bosniaks’ towards oriental linguistic tradition
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
ISLAM AND PRE-ISLAMIC TRADITION OF ARABS – A QUR'ANIC-SUNNA ANALYSIS
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