The status of qira'ats in relation to the integral Qur'anic text has been the subject of disagreement among Islamic scholars. Some have identified qira'ats with the Qur'an, some have made a distinction between these two terms, whereas some have seen in them the relationship between a part and the whole. Various views on the emergence and role of qi...

By Dževdet Šošić

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

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

This paper elaborates on how the scholars of the Hanafi School of Law theoretically considered the clear meaning of the legislative text (wāḍiḥ) and how the Hanafis categorized it. Out of the four categories: ẓāhir, naṣṣ, mufassar and muḥkem, this paper deals with the first two. Naming examples, the paper presents the use of these categories in the...

By Šukrija Ramić

Inclusion as a relatively new concept and a way of consideration in the organization of a modern teaching system and school arose out of a necessity to eliminate every type of segregation among students. According to some leading theoreticians of this field, inclusive education is the way to enable students with special needs to incorporate into re...

By Amel Alić

The structure of multiple wh-questions differs significantly in the English and Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian language, firstly, with respect to the number of wh-phrases positioned at the beginning of the sentence and, secondly, with respect to the free vs. strict Superiority-obeying ordering of these wh-phrases. The gist of this article is the contras...

By Amna Brdarević-Čeljo

In contrast to the traditional patocentric practice of treating psychotic disorders including schizophrenia, in the modern mental health concept a bio-psycho-social approach is emphasized, being characterized as comprehensive, integrative and above all humane. Psychosocial counseling of schizophrenic patients as a necessary form of intervention occ...

By Elma Begagić, Inela Šehić-Torlaković, Almira Isić-Imamović

One of the most significant figures of Bosniak cultural and literary revival during the period of Austro-Hungarian rule in Bosnia was certainly Safvet-beg Bašagić. With an exceptionally wide range of occupations and diverse activities in the field of culture and social and political activity in general, he enormously contributed to the affirmation ...

By Ibnel Ramić, Ikbal Smajlović

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 is devoted to the process of translation and some of its aspects, such as the key factors involved in the process as well as its different dimensions and perspectives. When translating, the preference is usually given to only one of the factors involved in the translation process, which eventually determines the mode of translation as we...

By Amrudin Hajrić