The analysis of the manuscripts by Mehmed Handžić “Unvanul-hikme vel-mevizatul-haseneh” with a special look at Sherhu ayetin ve tefsiruha

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Inside the Ghazi Husrev-beg’s Library is a manuscripts under the reference number 6966 which hasn’t been studied to date and as such is unknown to the wider reading public. On this occasion we are presenting it to the public for the first time. The manuscript is entitled Unvanul-hikme vel-mevizatul-hasene. It was written by Muhammed El-Handži el-Bosnevi (1906-1944), who was an renowned Bosnian alim in several Islamic disciplines, a historian, a writer and a translator from Arabic and Turkish. He wrote in Bosnian and Arabic. The main characteristics of the manuscript: L. 27; 24,5 X 20 (19,5 X 12); 22 lines. Large print. Black ink. The headings of each paragraph are written in black ink on lined notebook paper. Hard binding (cardboard). Autograph manuscript. Donated to the library by the author’s brother Mustafa Handžić from Sarajevo. The manuscript consists of fifteen sermons which the author had, at one time, delivered in two Sarajevo mosques. As a part of this manuscript, we have singled out, for this occasion, a theme entitled Sherhu ayetin ve tefsiruha, in which the author comments on the 65th verse of the sura En-Nisa.’ With his commentary the author wished to emphasise the obligatory importance of following the practice of Allah’s Prophet s.a.w.s., as well as some deviant occurrences among the Muslims of that time in respect to the fulfilment of religious obligations and the essential understanding of belief.

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