The paper treats the Arabic love poetry and its main features in the pre-Islamic and Umayyad period. The formation, development and characteristics of this poetry are closely related to the nature of the poet, as well as the place of its origin. Based on this, we distinguish between urban and desert ghazals. From the point of stylistic peculiaritie...

By Semir Rebronja

Few civilizations, such as ancient Roman, ancient Greek and medieval Arabian have given to humanity so many revolutionary ideas, philosophical reflections, legal solutions, and systematization of legal norms and the legal regulation of the entire social system interwoven by temporal and spiritual, religious and civil norms. Given the above, this pa...

By Ajdin Huseinspahić

The aim of this study was to examine metric characteristics of the structured questionnaire on religiosity for respondents of the Islamic faith, and to establish its structural validity and reliability. The study was conducted on a sample of 230 respondents (70 male and 160 female students). Factor analysis singled out three latent factors or dimen...

By Almira Isić-Imamović, Izet Pehlić, Muamer Neimarlija

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

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

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

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

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

The companions of the Prophet (sahaba) were the best generation of men that has ever appeared on the Earth. They implemented the Book of Allah most profoundly, by their strict following of the Prophet, saws. Unfortunately, in time, there were attempts to distort the image of this honourable generation, so different untruths were invented in order ...

By Šefik Kurdić

Imam Abu Bakr ar Razi al-Jassas is one of the prominent Islamic scholars. He is the author of numerous works, most famous of which is his tafsir Ahkam al-Qur'an (the Qur'an Regulations), in which he commented the Holy Qur'an with special reference to the revelations concerning regulations (Ayat al-Ahkam), according to the methodology of the Hanafi ...

By Safvet Halilović