The closest meaning of the key word „mawla“, mentioned in the following hadith referring to Hazrat Ali: „If I am a person’s mawla then Ali is also his mawla” is familiarity and closeness. Several interpretations of this hadith (sebebul-vurūd) suggest exactly this meaning, and not the meaning of authority transfer and succession, as taught by the Is...

By Mina Valjevac, Mensur Valjevac

Derviš ef. Spahić occupies a special place among Islamic scholars in our region. It is said that great nations have institutions and small – great individuals who ensure the continuation of their nation by their extraordinary sacrifice. This outstanding scholar held speeches, wrote, read and studied, in particular the Qur’an and hadith. He organize...

By Safet Husejnović

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

This paper was based on the fact that educators’ social communicative competences are insufficiently discussed in professional literature, and that there is no research instrument testing them. Therefore, the goal of this paper was to develop and then empirically validate the Scale for the Assessment of Educators’ Social Communicative Competences. ...

By Naira Jusufović, Anela Hasanagić, Izet Pehlić

As a global lingua franca, English has become a language of modern technologies, or, more precisely - a language of science and technology in general. Its influence on other languages is constantly growing and, consequently, a number of English loanwords in these languages is growing as well, opening the wide space for emergence of ‘false friends’....

By Aida Tarabar

In addition to presenting the classic hadith scholars’ work on protecting the hadith material from insertions and modifications as well as presenting the developmental stages of the hadith science, this paper aims to represent some specificities of the hadith narrations such as the shortest sened (sulasijjat) by which the narration reached the most...

By Salih Indžić

Ever since the nineties of the XX century collective memory has become preoccupation and a research topic in a number of scientific disciplines. Despite its frequent use, even nowadays this term provokes uncertainty, disapproval and doubt. The debate on whether there is collective memory or not is usually taking place between two opposing theoretic...

By Esad Delibašić

The paper is based on the idea that speech and language development of preschool children represents a precondition for the overall child development as well as a significant determinant of successful schooling. The aim of the paper was to develop a questionnaire on the use of speech games to stimulate children’s speech and language development and...

By Delila Ramić, Amina Odobašić, Amina Pehlić

This paper deals with semantic intentions of the absolute object in the Qur’anic text. The aim is to establish frequent morphosyntactic patterns by which the absolute object is realized in the Qur'anic text, and then to offer a linguistic description of the role the absolute object plays in shaping the semantic dimension of the Qur'anic text, and b...

By Midhat Jugo

The aim of this paper was to find out whether teachers' attitudes about learning and teaching will be reflected in the attitudes about education for ecologically sustainable development. In terms of research methods, a method of theoretical analysis and a descriptive-analytical survey method were used, while survey was used as a research technique...

By Nermin Tufekčić, Mirsada Bulut-Huseljić