Islam is primarily the religion of peace, it promotes love and obedience to the Supreme Lord, and then love and respect towards His creatures, and particularly humans as the most eminent creatures. Allah, the Exalted, vehemently condemns unlawful taking of other being’s life. Moreover, the Qur’an rejects the excessive use of force in retaliating ag...

By Safet Husejnović

This paper aims to provide a brief overview of the past studies on negation, starting from Jespersen (1917) to the more recent ones that are elaborated within the generative grammar and based on Klima (1964). In the work of Klima (1964) and all subsequent works on the grammar of negation, such as Lasnik (1972), Pollock (1989), Laka (1990), Progovac...

By Melisa Bureković

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

Today, a teacher’s professional development is said to be a process that includes different experiences, that of a pupil, student, parent, other co-workers and teachers themselves. The term socialization is more often used. Its use in this context should broaden the meaning of the term teacher’s professional education to all processes and contexts ...

By Dževdeta Ajanović

The correct comprehension and understanding of the grammatical structure of phrasemes is a complex issue imposed on non-native speakers of theTurkish language who study grammatical structures of modern Turkish language. The aim of this paper is to analyze the grammatical structure of nominal somatic phrasemes in modern Turkish language. The analysi...

By Edina Solak, Mirza Bašić, Selma Čusto

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

This work gives a short survey on formation of institutions in which knowledge was acquired and spread, during the Islam history. It mentions an embryo from which all types of such institutions developed : 1. Teaching basic principles of the faith and hadīth which it initiates 2. Khaliph Omar (r.a.). The teaching took place in mosques built in newl...

By Muhamed Busuladžić

This paper is the adapted and extended version of the bachelor’s work of our student Eldar Ćerim supervised by professor Edina Vejo and assistant professor Elma Begagić. The paper presents the results of several research studies (Bazrafshan, Jahangir & Shokrpour, 2017; Cox, 2011; Pirner, 2017; Williams & Lindsey, 2005) showing the nature of...

By Eldar Ćerim, Edina Vejo, Elma Begagić

Even though shaykh Halid effendi Salihagić was not known to public, he made a great contribution to preserving and developing religiosity and spirituality in our area, between the last two wars. His difficult life and trials have not prevented the development of his personal religiosity and spirituality, as well as his influence on his disciples an...

By Mensur Valjevac

Theoretical and empiric research results prove that noise harms not only physical but also mental health of people. Long exposition to strong noise provokes inner tension and anxiety, which often leads to damage of organ of hearing. The consequences of noise are obvious in neuro-vegetative disorder. People exposed to the noise, which is beyond poss...

By Ismet Dizdarević