Dizzing changes characterize our everyday life. Although it may seem that changes are general in the formal organization of schooling system, they are not as noticable as in other life segments. Nevertheless, they directly affect schools and their key factors: children – teachers – curricula – parents. As a result, there is the issue of the need of...

By Nezir Halilović

Traditional practice at schools has ceased to be the primary source of acquiring knowledge for some time now. These days, teaching staff is dealing with a population of students that cannot be integrated into the teaching process in a traditional way. Students see teaching requirements and teachers’ efforts as old-fashioned, difficult and dull. Tea...

By Ahmed Buljubašić

Under the contemporary conditions of postindustrial society, the most important issue of a manager success is reflected through his lidership characteristics. Contemporary managers should be able to balance between their formal and real authority, between rational and emotional inteligence, or between manager and leadership characteristics. Accordi...

By Elvir Čizmić, Izet Pehlić

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

Contemporary long line of attacks on human life (torture, killing, execution, terorism, crimes, wars, genocides) annuls the results of scientific and technological development. Thanks to learning/teaching a man as an individual as well as the entire human rase can find a solution to the situation. Upbringing/education not only provides all possible...

By Mujo Slatina

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

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

The aim of this paper is to contribute to the understanding of the theoretical construct of a social capital. The social capital is understood as one of the relevant prognostic constructs for the results of both transitional and integrational processes in our societies. Considering that the environment we live in is evident in the process of (re)ac...

By Edina Vejo, Nataša Mirolović-Vlah

This paper elaborates ten crucial principles that should be the basis for ijjtihad in Islamic law (Fikh): 1. the principle of active ijjtihad, 2. the principle of considering the entire fikh heritage and braking loose with a blind devotion to any of the mezhebs, 3. the principle of understanding the essence of life conditions and circumstances, 4. ...

By Šukrija Ramić

For a long time bribe and corruption have complicated social relations throughout the world, and very early the have become a part of Muslim social life. For some scientists the existence of these phenomena was the key reason for the decline of the Ottoman Empire. This paper does not discuss neither the history of bribe and corruption in the Muslim...

By Esmir Halilović