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

Apocryphal traditions, called Hadiths by our people because they are the words and teachings of the Prophet himself, are a part of our daily routine. They ¸flooded even numerous scientific and technical literature, and they are often quoted by highly regarded and respectable intellectuals. This also goes for those circles that should, with the stre...

By Šefik Kurdić

The aim of this paper was to validate the Elementary School Class Teacher Competency Questionnaire based on seven quality standards promoted by The Teacher Development Network, which are the basis for improving learning and effective teaching, for the certification of teachers in practice and the preparation of future class teachers. For that purpo...

By Rasema Sarić

Bosnia and Herzegovina is a multiethnic and multicultural society in which, traditionally, there is a high degree of sensitivity to the need to respect, promote, get to know, connect and preserve different cultures. This paper primarily tries to point to the multifaceted cultural identity of BiH and the fact that cultural, traditional and religious...

By Mejra Softić

Studying of dialects takes an important place in Arabic linguistics. It is a significant fact from two aspects: First – For a long time dialects were considered “spoiled” variants of literary language and therefore serious discussions about them were avoided. Second – Such opinion was finally overcome and because dialects are means of everyday com...

By Mejra Softić

The paper deals with the issue of socio-emotional climate and students' school success, it attempts to point out their importance, as well as to explicate particular aspects and dimensions of these two concepts, with a special emphasis on the investigation of their interconnection. The aim of the research is to determine the relationship between so...

By Belma Alić-Ramić

Translation is a kind of a trial for the target language, a test of its expressive possibilities, but also an exam of the abilities and skills of a translator. Even the best translators refrained from translating “holy books”, due to the challenges of uniqueness of the form and as a precaution of potential sin and (or) blasphemy which translation c...

By Nermin Šušić

In one historical period the Bosniaks linked their literacy to oriental languages, especially Arabic, which they didn’t experience as something that was imposed upon them, but embraced it as the language of Islam and endeavoured to learn Arabic along with the native Bosnian language. Under conditions of strong oriental tradition, the Bosnian langua...

By Hazema Ništović

Although idolatry religion of pre-Islamic Arabs was directly opposite to absolute God's oneness, Islamic religion did not categorically deny pre-Islamic tradition. Depending on certain cusoms character, Islam accepted some of them, some were reformed and some were rejected or replaced. In this paper, by the method textual analysis of the Qur'an an...

By Elvir Duranović