Shaih Se’id Havva is an outstanding personality among contemporary Islamic scholars. With his total commitment, and especially his written works, he gave crucial contribution to the affirmation of contemporary Islam and Islamic thought. Living in the 20th century, the time of great turmoil, he truly identified himself with the problems that contemp...

By Safvet Halilović

There are some differences in understanding the terms: upbringing example/role model/ideal. An upbringing example points at other people's success. He provides a basis for practical work. An upbringing role model is a person who puts into practice things he suggests to other people. Practice leads to positive results and success. A role model is ba...

By Melisa Zukić

In this paper, we try to shed some light on the possibility and necessity for Islamic banks to play some more active role in realizing one of the most important purposes of Islamic law – Sharia – to eradicate poverty and to insure just distribution of profit and wealth. The paper presents a sharia-legal foundation for starting institutions inside I...

By Šukrija Ramić

A good translation from one language into another is one of the most difficult intellectual as well as scientific challenges. With the development of language as a living tissue of every ethnic and cultural community there comes a need for occasional review, correction, addition and improvement of existing translations. In this paper, we deal with ...

By Mnesur Valjevac

Mehmed ef. Handžić, (1906-1944) was a prominent Bosnian scholar with an imposing opus in different fields. The uniqueness of his works lies in the fact that he was the only one, in modern history of Bosnian Muslims, to interpret the Holy Qur’an in Arabic, and to treat the ayats with sharia background (ajatul-ahkam). His important interpretations ar...

By Halil Mehtić

This issue is not of only philosophical character apart from Quranic-Sunni texts. The issue started inside a circle of Islamic society where Islamic texts were the foundation for everything in their lives and way of thinking. They were even the main trait of a Muslim personality. The domain of divine in the way of an individual’s reasoning should b...

By Zuhdija Adilović

Since Ilhamija is one of the most influential personalities of Bosnian culture at the end of Otoman period learning his intelectual and spiritual exertion becomes necessary in order to better undertand his importance for total social and cultural flow in Bosnia and Herzegovina at that time. Applying the deconstructional method of text analysis, Il...

By sedad dizdarevic

A set of instruments applied at entrance exams for the last two academic years has been rather comprehensive in order to provide good insight into candidates’ skills and characteristics. For the reasons of rationalizing testing instruments which are to be used at entrance exams at this faculty, and for the aim of the research, it is necessary to ex...

By Anela Hasanagić

Being a Qur’anic-Hadith category the interpretations of dreams is also a part of Islamic belief and practice. Dreams are not connected to people but to their meaning and as such they must not be a reason for repulsing people. Generally speaking, all dreams should be positively interpreted. Making up and magnifying dreams is a great sin. Bad dreams ...

By Mensur Valjevac

Ebu Hanife, Malik, Shafiya and Ahmad are the leading spirits of Islamic thought. Their reasoning in the domain of Shari’ah made them the unavoidable sources for all generations of Muslims throughout history. The most obvious proof for that is the four great law schools that have endured the time and that had been founded and defined by these four g...

By Šefik Kurdić