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

Mehmed ef. Handžić (1906-1944) is a unique Bosnian alim (scholar) who wrote great many diverse works. His uniqueness lies partly in his being the only one, in the modern history of Bosnian Muslims, who annotated the Noble Qur’an in Arabic and who treated only the ayats with Shari’ah (legal) themes (ajatul-ahkam). In the field of Taffssir his most i...

By Halil Mehtić

A new strategic management system, if it’s adequately implemented, can change an entire organization in a way to became more effective and efficient, and the most of strategic management authors and practicers agree that implementation of an organizational strategy is more difficult than its formulation. In today’s dynamic, highly competitive envir...

By Elvir Čizmić, Izet Pehlić

As a basic element of grammatical predicate category, the nominal sentence predicate in literary arabic language is specified by important structural, morphological and syntactict features. These faetures result from traditional rules deep rooted in arabic syntax, according to them the arabic grammarians in their general sentence classification int...

By Mejra Softić

The goal of this research paper is examining the extent end way of spending free time of lower classes primary students, as well as to define the attitudes of teacher and parents towards students’ free time. This research had been done in Osnovna škola KŠC ¨Sveti Pavao¨ Zenica and Osnovna škola ¨Meša Selimović¨ Zenica in two fourth-grade classes ea...

By Refik Čatić, Ana Pavlović

The Ka’ba in Mekah and the Prophet’s house in Maddinah are the archetypes of Islamic architecture. They are situated in, for Muslims, most sacred places (al-haramayn). The Ka’ba represents the beginning and the Prophet’s mosque the end of forming a fundamental cultural matrix, or in other words macroparadigm, of the People of the Book as a basis fo...

By Nusret Isanović

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

One of the valid definitions of bio-ethics as integrating biological knowledge with ¨the knowledge about human value systems¨(Van Rensselaer Potter) necessarily refers to a great task confronting this recent science. Accordingly, reflections upon a man-Internet relation seen as a new community and net-ethics meaning searching for ¨conscience¨ of vi...

By Spahija Kozlić

Allah’s revelation through the Qur’an and the Messenger, s.a.w.s., is an inexhaustible sea. In this paper we intended these two sources to be dominant. In His Revelation Book Allah says that Ibrahim s.a.w.s. asked Him: "Our Lord! send amongst them an Messenger of their own, who shall rehearse Thy Signs to them and instruct them in scripture and wis...

By Mensur Valjevac