At the time when Austro – Hungarian authority proclaimed the term Bosnian language official, numerous newspapers and periodicals, published during the period of its rule, insisted on phonetically orthographic principle emphasizing its advantage over etymologically orthographic solutions. In orthographic discussions certain resistance to introducing...

By Hazema Ništović

Studying Al-Faraby’s work, with an accent on his contribution to the methodology of language study, we came to the conclusion that he persistently tried to bring closer language and logic. Committed to setting a scientific system and research method which would be based on the reason and argumentation, he significantly rose above his time heavy wit...

By Mehmed Kico

The expansion of psychologists’ interests, for religious aspects of human existence, appeared a few decades ago, which is quite surprising, considering presumed importance of a religious domain in human life. However, despite a great interest for the phenomenon of religiosity this expansion in scientific study of religiosity did not bring any impor...

By Dženan Skelić

The term israiliates is frequently mentioned in tafsir literature. Scientists relate the origin of israiliates to the early period of Islamic history, to the time of scholars, when some of them, searching for some extra knowledge and details from the narration about the Messengers and earlier peoples, turned to the words of the followers of the Ho...

By Safvet Halilović

The two greatest muhaddis in history, Bukhari and Muslim, had an outstanding memory, precise criteria for accepting and transmitting Hadith and, above all, subtle piousness and godliness. These characteristics made their two collections most renowned and most accepted among all Hadith works. By consensus of Islamic scholars their two collections, k...

By Šefik Kurdić

The theme of this paper is life-long study on sports. It is a research paper and its aim is to examine if there is statistically important difference in examinees’ attitudes regarding the way sport influences life, the reasons for enrolling the Trainer Academy, expectations, education quality and the ways of permanent improving. Another aim of the ...

By Refik Čatić

Sunnan are Hadith collections recognizable by Hadiths classified according to the Shari’ah legal issues. Actually, they represent a fortunate synthesis of Hadith and Shari’ah law, so they have been especially useful for Shari’ah lawyers in making decisions according to legal principles of Shari’ah. These Hadith collections were the characteristic o...

By Šefik Kurdić

Mehmed ef Handžić is considered to be one of the most prominent alims in the last century. Although he lived only 38 years (1906-1944) he wrote an imposing number of various works. He is one of the few, from the newer generation of Bosnian scholars that wrote original works in native language as well as in Arabic. He wrote works on Hadith, Aquida, ...

By Halil Mehtić

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

Islamic manuscript books had an over-eminent role in the spreading of literacy and dissemination of knowledge of Islamic provenance in Bosnia and Herzegovina not only among ulemah circles but rather among ordinary people in general. Those facts are proved by several thousands of such books which are preserved in national and foreign collections, mo...

By Enes Kujundžić