Elvir Duranovic
ELVIR DURANOVIĆ, PHD
Research Fellow
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Elvir Duranović a research fellow at the Institute for Islamic Tradition of Bosniaks since May 2015. He finished Gazi Husrev-Bey's Madrasa in Sarajevo (1989). He obtained a BA from the Islamic College of Education in Zenica (1997) and the Faculty of Islamic Studies in Sarajevo (2003).
During his education in the Madrasa he started memorizing the Qur’an in front of the renowned Hafiz, the late Kamil ef. Silajdžić and the late Mahmoud ef. Traljić. He obtained the diploma of "Hafiz Quran" in 1991.
He finished his postgraduate studies at the Faculty of Islamic Studies, University in Sarajevo, in 2009 with the master thesis “The Elements of Slavic Tradition in the Practice of Bosnian Muslims”. He finished as the first in his class. He received his PhD in May 2014. His PhD thesis was entitled “Pilgrimage sites in the area around Travnik city - genesis and reality” at the same Faculty.
Elvir is the author of 5 books and a number of scientific papers published in Journals and Proceedings of IPF in Zenica, Glasnik Islamke zajednice, Takvim, Novi Muallim, Znakovi Vremena, Novi Horizonti and Godišnjak BZK Preporod in Bugojno.
His research focus is on cultural history of Bosniaks, religious anthropology and ethnology.
Address: Bugojno, BiH
Research Fellow
[email protected]
Elvir Duranović a research fellow at the Institute for Islamic Tradition of Bosniaks since May 2015. He finished Gazi Husrev-Bey's Madrasa in Sarajevo (1989). He obtained a BA from the Islamic College of Education in Zenica (1997) and the Faculty of Islamic Studies in Sarajevo (2003).
During his education in the Madrasa he started memorizing the Qur’an in front of the renowned Hafiz, the late Kamil ef. Silajdžić and the late Mahmoud ef. Traljić. He obtained the diploma of "Hafiz Quran" in 1991.
He finished his postgraduate studies at the Faculty of Islamic Studies, University in Sarajevo, in 2009 with the master thesis “The Elements of Slavic Tradition in the Practice of Bosnian Muslims”. He finished as the first in his class. He received his PhD in May 2014. His PhD thesis was entitled “Pilgrimage sites in the area around Travnik city - genesis and reality” at the same Faculty.
Elvir is the author of 5 books and a number of scientific papers published in Journals and Proceedings of IPF in Zenica, Glasnik Islamke zajednice, Takvim, Novi Muallim, Znakovi Vremena, Novi Horizonti and Godišnjak BZK Preporod in Bugojno.
His research focus is on cultural history of Bosniaks, religious anthropology and ethnology.
Address: Bugojno, BiH
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su djelovali u vareškoj džamiji tokom austrougarskog doba, dok u četvrtom dijelu autor donosi podatke o nekim imamima koji su radili u prigradskim naseljima na području Vareša do kraja Prvog svjetskog rata.
This text presents ‘alims, imams and mu’allims of Vareš and
its surroundings during the periods of the Ottoman and Austro-
Hungarian rules respectively. The Author for this purpose
used published works as well as some unpublished sources. The
first part of the article relates about the ulama from the medieval
forts of Dubrovnik, near Ilijaš, and Bobovac. The second
part thematizes ‘alims who worked as imams and mu’allims
in Čaršijska džamija mosque in Vareš in the period between
the ending of the 18th century until the occupation of Bosnia
and Herzegovina in 1878. The third part of the article presents
those ‘alims who worked in Vareš mosque during the Austro-
Hungarian rule, and the final part brings some data on some
‘alims who worked in the areas
Since the time of the third Khalifah, Othman r.a., Islamic scholars classify private property into hidden (gold, silver, merchandise) of which the value is known only to its owner, and the manifest (livestock, agricultural products etc.), the value of which is visible to all. Since that time the state continued collecting the zakat on the manifest/ the visible property and Omer r.a. made it a responsibility of all eligible Muslims to pay the zakat on their hidden property as well. From that time end ever since then only the zakat on hidden property was considered as zakat. Based on the main
sources and the published data the author here presents the views of Bosniak ulama, primarily the opinion of Džemaludin Čaušević, which in the period between the two World Wars brought about a system of organised collection of Zakat on hidden property in Bosnia and Herzegovina for charity purpose.
Keywords: zakat on hidden property, organised collection of Zakat, Džemaludin Čaušević, Mehmed Handžić, Husein Đozo, Fund Bejtul-mal
biblioteke u Sarajevu, i njenom orijentalnom rukopisnom blagu koje se
sastoji od 10.585 kodeksa. Nakon toga, oslanjajući se na osamnaest objavljenih Kataloga arapskih, turskih, perzijskih i bosanskih rukopisa iz Gazi Husrev-begove biblioteke, sažeto predstavlja rukopise djela pira Behauddina Nakšibenda, utemeljitelja nakšibendijskog derviškog reda, kao i rukopise komentara tih djela; rukopise djela o nakšibendijskom tarikatu, njegovim pravilima, adabima i silsili; te rukopise djela šejhova i derviša nakšibendijskog tarikata. Na kraju rada autor poziva istraživače historije islama u Bosni i Hercegovini da posvete veću pažnju sačuvanim rukopisima o nakšibendijskom tarikatu čija brojnost svjedoči o popularnosti ovog derviškog reda u našoj zemlji posebno tokom 18. i 19. stoljeća.
Non-material cultural heritage is or the living religious legacy, is a significant segment of the cultural identity of any ethnic or religious community. According to the UNESCO Convention, non-material cultural heritage is defined, among other things, as cultural spaces, and is manifested in five domains, of which the third incorporates: social practices, rituals and festive events. Within this domain, Bosnia and Herzegovina has Ajvatovica Pilgrimage on the Open Preliminary List of Intangible Heritage. In this article, the author presents the experience
of the Islamic Community in organizing the pilgrimage to Ajvatovica, explores some prospects for preserving the sight as a living religious heritage, and points out some challenges that the organizers may face in future. The author here also discusses another cultural space, Brateljevići cave near Kladanj which could also be promoted as another sacred location along with Ajvatovica for the Preliminary List of Intangible Heritage of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
GOVERNMENT TOWARDS HUSEIN-EF. ĐOZO
Based on the documents found in GaziHusrev-bey’s Libray, the family archive of Husein ef. Đozo, the Archives of the State Commission for Religious Issues and the Archive Information and Security Agency, wherein the archive of UDBA is also preserved, the author here thematises the attitude of the socialist government towards Husein ef. Đozo, an Islamic thinker whose endeavour marked the second half of the 20th century within the Islamic Community of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The first part of the article reveals some lesser-known biographical details of Husein Đozo related to his activities during the Second World War, which in particular
were the basis for the State’s opinion later, in the socialist period. Further on, the author discusses the socialist government’s view regarding Đozo’s decision to return to the Islamic Community in the year 1960. All the preserved documents undoubtedly show that Husein Đozo, as a person
of high morality, refused to act as a government informer and that the same government would leave him alone for so long as his activities were in line with the government’s agenda. However, each time his actions were esteemed to be contrary to its objectives, the government would initiate
all available mechanisms, such as informative hearings, and exercising pressure via regime-controlled media all to force him into resigning from his current duties and returning to a more desirable frame of work.
Keywords: Husein Đozo, Sulejman Kemura, UDBA, Commission for Religious Issues, Parergon
U ovom radu smo na nekoliko različitiih primjera predstavili utjecaje Ajvatovice na organizaciju ostalih dovišta u Bosni i Hercegovini.
Višegradskoj medresi i metodologiju rada koja se temelji na tekstualnoj analizi neobjavljene arhivske građe. Autor potom govori o Višegradskoj medresi, njenom osnivaču i vakufima iz čijih sredstava se finansirao njen rad. Na osnovu sačuvanih dokumenata o Hadži Gazi-beg Čengić medresi iz Arhiva Gazi Husrev-begove biblioteke, autor u nastavku predstavlja biografije trojice poznatih muderisa ove medrese, analizira njen nastavni plan i donosi zbirne podatke o učenicima medrese u periodu od 1897. do 1925. godine, uz predstavljanje određenih informacija iz životopisa
nekih njenih đaka. Hadži Gazi-beg Čengić medresa je odgojno-obrazovna ustanova čiji značaj za islamsko vjersko prosvjećivanje Bošnjaka muslimana na području Višegrada i okoline, imajući u vidu da je o njoj do sada objavljena samo jedna kraća istraživačka bilješka, nije dovoljno istaknut. Obilje novih, do sada neobjavljenih informacija o ovoj medresi, koje autor donosi u radu, pomoći će da se njena važnost za očuvanje islama na području Višegrada i šire sagledava u novom svjetlu.
Summary
In the introductory part of this text, the author provides an overview of
the published literature on the Višegrad Madrasa and the work methodology based on the textual analysis of unpublished archival materials. The author then deals with the Višegrad Madrasa, its founder and waqfs from whose funds its functioning was financed. Based on the preserved documents about Hadži Gazi-beg Čengić's Madrasa from the Archives of Gazi Husrev-beg's Library, the author presents the biographies of three famous mudarrises of this madrasa, analyses its curriculum and brings aggregate data on the madrasa students in the period from 1897 to 1925, with the presentation of certain information from the biography of some of its students. Hadži Gazibeg Čengić's Madrasa is an educational institution whose importance for the Islamic religious enlightenment of the Bosniak Muslims in the area of Višegrad and its surroundings, bearing in mind that only one brief research record has been published about it thus far, has not been sufficiently highlighted. The abundance of new and so far unpublished information about this madrasa, which the author mentions in the paper, will help to see its significance for the preservation of Islam in the Višegrad area and beyond in a new light.
IJAZAT-NAMA OF MUHAMEDA SEID SERDAREVIĆ
The author here presents a translation of the Ijazat-nama issued to Muhamed Seid Serdarević, a renowned Bosniak scholar of the early 20th century, by Ahmed-ef. Hadžijamaković, sheikh and muderris of Gazi Husrev-bey’s khanikah in Sarajevo, in the year 1908. In the first part of the article, the author brings a brief introduction to the life and works of muderris Hadžijamaković and Muhamed Seid Serdarević along with a short presentation of Gazi Husrev-bey’s khanikah. Further, the author presents a general structure and the content of the ijazat-nama as a document and finally, he brings the transla-tion of the text of Hadžijamaković’s ijazat-nama issued to Mu-hamed Seid Serdarević for tafseer, fiqh and hadith the subjects that were thought in Khanikah at the beginning of the 20thcentury. This ijazat-nama classifies Muhamed Seid Serdarević amongst the elite Islamic scholars who have been preserving and transferring to new generations the knowledge of their faith from its source, from the Messenger of Allah, s.w.s.
su djelovali u vareškoj džamiji tokom austrougarskog doba, dok u četvrtom dijelu autor donosi podatke o nekim imamima koji su radili u prigradskim naseljima na području Vareša do kraja Prvog svjetskog rata.
This text presents ‘alims, imams and mu’allims of Vareš and
its surroundings during the periods of the Ottoman and Austro-
Hungarian rules respectively. The Author for this purpose
used published works as well as some unpublished sources. The
first part of the article relates about the ulama from the medieval
forts of Dubrovnik, near Ilijaš, and Bobovac. The second
part thematizes ‘alims who worked as imams and mu’allims
in Čaršijska džamija mosque in Vareš in the period between
the ending of the 18th century until the occupation of Bosnia
and Herzegovina in 1878. The third part of the article presents
those ‘alims who worked in Vareš mosque during the Austro-
Hungarian rule, and the final part brings some data on some
‘alims who worked in the areas
Since the time of the third Khalifah, Othman r.a., Islamic scholars classify private property into hidden (gold, silver, merchandise) of which the value is known only to its owner, and the manifest (livestock, agricultural products etc.), the value of which is visible to all. Since that time the state continued collecting the zakat on the manifest/ the visible property and Omer r.a. made it a responsibility of all eligible Muslims to pay the zakat on their hidden property as well. From that time end ever since then only the zakat on hidden property was considered as zakat. Based on the main
sources and the published data the author here presents the views of Bosniak ulama, primarily the opinion of Džemaludin Čaušević, which in the period between the two World Wars brought about a system of organised collection of Zakat on hidden property in Bosnia and Herzegovina for charity purpose.
Keywords: zakat on hidden property, organised collection of Zakat, Džemaludin Čaušević, Mehmed Handžić, Husein Đozo, Fund Bejtul-mal
biblioteke u Sarajevu, i njenom orijentalnom rukopisnom blagu koje se
sastoji od 10.585 kodeksa. Nakon toga, oslanjajući se na osamnaest objavljenih Kataloga arapskih, turskih, perzijskih i bosanskih rukopisa iz Gazi Husrev-begove biblioteke, sažeto predstavlja rukopise djela pira Behauddina Nakšibenda, utemeljitelja nakšibendijskog derviškog reda, kao i rukopise komentara tih djela; rukopise djela o nakšibendijskom tarikatu, njegovim pravilima, adabima i silsili; te rukopise djela šejhova i derviša nakšibendijskog tarikata. Na kraju rada autor poziva istraživače historije islama u Bosni i Hercegovini da posvete veću pažnju sačuvanim rukopisima o nakšibendijskom tarikatu čija brojnost svjedoči o popularnosti ovog derviškog reda u našoj zemlji posebno tokom 18. i 19. stoljeća.
Non-material cultural heritage is or the living religious legacy, is a significant segment of the cultural identity of any ethnic or religious community. According to the UNESCO Convention, non-material cultural heritage is defined, among other things, as cultural spaces, and is manifested in five domains, of which the third incorporates: social practices, rituals and festive events. Within this domain, Bosnia and Herzegovina has Ajvatovica Pilgrimage on the Open Preliminary List of Intangible Heritage. In this article, the author presents the experience
of the Islamic Community in organizing the pilgrimage to Ajvatovica, explores some prospects for preserving the sight as a living religious heritage, and points out some challenges that the organizers may face in future. The author here also discusses another cultural space, Brateljevići cave near Kladanj which could also be promoted as another sacred location along with Ajvatovica for the Preliminary List of Intangible Heritage of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
GOVERNMENT TOWARDS HUSEIN-EF. ĐOZO
Based on the documents found in GaziHusrev-bey’s Libray, the family archive of Husein ef. Đozo, the Archives of the State Commission for Religious Issues and the Archive Information and Security Agency, wherein the archive of UDBA is also preserved, the author here thematises the attitude of the socialist government towards Husein ef. Đozo, an Islamic thinker whose endeavour marked the second half of the 20th century within the Islamic Community of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The first part of the article reveals some lesser-known biographical details of Husein Đozo related to his activities during the Second World War, which in particular
were the basis for the State’s opinion later, in the socialist period. Further on, the author discusses the socialist government’s view regarding Đozo’s decision to return to the Islamic Community in the year 1960. All the preserved documents undoubtedly show that Husein Đozo, as a person
of high morality, refused to act as a government informer and that the same government would leave him alone for so long as his activities were in line with the government’s agenda. However, each time his actions were esteemed to be contrary to its objectives, the government would initiate
all available mechanisms, such as informative hearings, and exercising pressure via regime-controlled media all to force him into resigning from his current duties and returning to a more desirable frame of work.
Keywords: Husein Đozo, Sulejman Kemura, UDBA, Commission for Religious Issues, Parergon
U ovom radu smo na nekoliko različitiih primjera predstavili utjecaje Ajvatovice na organizaciju ostalih dovišta u Bosni i Hercegovini.
Višegradskoj medresi i metodologiju rada koja se temelji na tekstualnoj analizi neobjavljene arhivske građe. Autor potom govori o Višegradskoj medresi, njenom osnivaču i vakufima iz čijih sredstava se finansirao njen rad. Na osnovu sačuvanih dokumenata o Hadži Gazi-beg Čengić medresi iz Arhiva Gazi Husrev-begove biblioteke, autor u nastavku predstavlja biografije trojice poznatih muderisa ove medrese, analizira njen nastavni plan i donosi zbirne podatke o učenicima medrese u periodu od 1897. do 1925. godine, uz predstavljanje određenih informacija iz životopisa
nekih njenih đaka. Hadži Gazi-beg Čengić medresa je odgojno-obrazovna ustanova čiji značaj za islamsko vjersko prosvjećivanje Bošnjaka muslimana na području Višegrada i okoline, imajući u vidu da je o njoj do sada objavljena samo jedna kraća istraživačka bilješka, nije dovoljno istaknut. Obilje novih, do sada neobjavljenih informacija o ovoj medresi, koje autor donosi u radu, pomoći će da se njena važnost za očuvanje islama na području Višegrada i šire sagledava u novom svjetlu.
Summary
In the introductory part of this text, the author provides an overview of
the published literature on the Višegrad Madrasa and the work methodology based on the textual analysis of unpublished archival materials. The author then deals with the Višegrad Madrasa, its founder and waqfs from whose funds its functioning was financed. Based on the preserved documents about Hadži Gazi-beg Čengić's Madrasa from the Archives of Gazi Husrev-beg's Library, the author presents the biographies of three famous mudarrises of this madrasa, analyses its curriculum and brings aggregate data on the madrasa students in the period from 1897 to 1925, with the presentation of certain information from the biography of some of its students. Hadži Gazibeg Čengić's Madrasa is an educational institution whose importance for the Islamic religious enlightenment of the Bosniak Muslims in the area of Višegrad and its surroundings, bearing in mind that only one brief research record has been published about it thus far, has not been sufficiently highlighted. The abundance of new and so far unpublished information about this madrasa, which the author mentions in the paper, will help to see its significance for the preservation of Islam in the Višegrad area and beyond in a new light.
IJAZAT-NAMA OF MUHAMEDA SEID SERDAREVIĆ
The author here presents a translation of the Ijazat-nama issued to Muhamed Seid Serdarević, a renowned Bosniak scholar of the early 20th century, by Ahmed-ef. Hadžijamaković, sheikh and muderris of Gazi Husrev-bey’s khanikah in Sarajevo, in the year 1908. In the first part of the article, the author brings a brief introduction to the life and works of muderris Hadžijamaković and Muhamed Seid Serdarević along with a short presentation of Gazi Husrev-bey’s khanikah. Further, the author presents a general structure and the content of the ijazat-nama as a document and finally, he brings the transla-tion of the text of Hadžijamaković’s ijazat-nama issued to Mu-hamed Seid Serdarević for tafseer, fiqh and hadith the subjects that were thought in Khanikah at the beginning of the 20thcentury. This ijazat-nama classifies Muhamed Seid Serdarević amongst the elite Islamic scholars who have been preserving and transferring to new generations the knowledge of their faith from its source, from the Messenger of Allah, s.w.s.
U prvom dijelu knjige pod naslovom “Zločini protiv čovječnosti i međunarodnog prava nad Bošnjacima Jajca, Jezera i Šipova 1992-1995.” autori: mr. sc. Zilha Mastalić-Košuta, mr. Alma Hajrić-Čaušević i mr. Almir Grabovica pišu o agresiji na Bosnu i Hercegovinu i događajima koji su rezultirali masovnim zločinima nad Bošnjacima u Jajcu, Jezeru i Šipovu te donose spisak svih žrtava zločina protiv čovječnosti i međunarodnog prava na području ove tri općine/opštine.
Drugi dio knjige “Memorijalizacija zločina nad Bošnjacima Jajca, Jezra i Šipova” bavi se materijalnim i nematerijalnim oblicima memorijalizacije zločina nad Bošnjacima u Jajcu, Jezeru i Šipovu.
Autori ovog dijela knjige su dr. sc. Elvir Duranović i mr. Hikmet Karčić.
Predstojeća, treća konferencija pod naslovom „Islamska tradicija Bošnjaka na razmeđu stoljeća: Izazovi i odgovori“ tematizirat će historijske okolnosti koje su pogodovale širenju novog tumačenja islama u Bosni i Hercegovini, matične tokove u diskursu vaninstitucionalnih pozivača ispravnom prakticiranju islamskih propisa i odgovor Islamske zajednice na polemička pitanja.