Distinction between prepositions zbog and radi in translation from German
This article discusses the use of prepositions zbog and radi in the Bosnian language as translation equivalents of the German preposition wegen based on a selected literary corpus. It is often the case in everyday speech that the difference in the meaning between these two prepositions is not noticed and often not understood by the native speakers ...
By Amela Čurković
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
KOLEKTIVNO-NEBODERSKO STANOVANJE: STANARSKA PERCEPCIJA SIGURNOSTI U NEBODERIMA HRASNO U SARAJEVU
Very little literature is devoted to the effects of social risks in the social organization of the skyscrapers that are consistently associated with social disorganization. Some studies prove that crime, for example, as an aspect of social disorganization, strengthens the energy of a community, while others show that it leads to fragmentation. Draw...
By Alisabri Šabani
PILGRIMAGE SITES – CONCEPTUAL DEFINITION
Throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina there are pilgrimage sites which Muslims visit from the middle of spring to late autumn. Although a lot has been written about pilgrimage sites, those are mainly press reports on the number of visitors and program content of the sites, and repeated reminders on folk tradition about a particular pilgrimage site, so ...
By Elvir Duranović
POSSIBILITY OF DEBATE ON CONSENSUS (IJMĀ’) OF ISLAMIC SCHOLARS IN THE CONTEMPORARY AGE
This paper presents the author’s ideas about a possibility of questioning consensus (ijmā’) of Islamic scholars, validity of those consensuses and authenticity of statements found in Islamic writings. In that sense, broad guidelines are presented at the end of the paper. Those guidelines can be of great help to contemporary Islamic scholars for bui...
By Šurkija Ramić
TAFSIR AND QIRA'AT IMPLICATIONS OF THE 233rd AYAT OF SURAH AL-BEQARAH
Islam emphasizes the importance of marriage which is a prerequisite for forming a healthy family which, then, presents the foundation, the pillar, the basis of every society. Thus, marriage has a special place in Islam. However, it can also be exposed to various challenges and temptations which, ultimately, can disrupt relationships within the marr...
By Safet Husejnović
Architecture as a space-enriching thought of islam
Together with calligraphy and arabesque architecture is considered the most authentic artistic form of Islam. It takes the central place in the hierarchy of its art. Islamic architecture as a special art of constructing and organizing area in a particular way conveys the spirit of “new” religion. It represents the development and numerous complexit...
By Nusret Isanović
SENTENCE IN THE ARABIC LANGUAGE- SOME REMARKS ON CRITERIA OF MODERN DIVISIONS AND CLASSIFICATIONS
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
Traditional sources of the last hour signs in the month of ramadan
One sign of the supernatural mission of the last Messenger of Allah’s (s) is the fact that he informed his Companions about everything that would take place before the Judgment Day, in the veracity of which many Muslims and non-Muslims have been convinced numerous times so far. The Qur’an talks indirectly, and the hadith unambiguously, about the ap...
By Mensur Valjevac
NOVEL ZAYNAB: BETWEEN ARAB TRADITIONALISM AND EUROPEAN ROMANTICISM
Novel Zaynab by Egyptian author Muḥammad Ḥusayn Haykal has become a subject of interest for Arab and Western European scholars in the field of literature. This novel is interesting and important in many aspects, one of them being a skillful blend of traditional Arab literary heritage and European Romanticism elements Haykal presented in this novel....
By Azra Kapetanović