THE ULAMAH FAMILIES THE BISTRIGIJA-JAKUBOVIC FAMILY

Abstract

There have always been important Ulama families in Bosnia and Herzegovina, families whose members have been of a great service to Islam and Muslims. According to our data, there were, at least, fifty such families, who have long deserved to have one comprehensive monographic volume be dedicated to them. Since nobody has done that yet, the author has decided to undertake this effort. The criteria he used in classifying these families is that they should have at least three scholars who left significant impact in our history, who wrote books and who were artists, calligraphers, religious leaders, prominent professors, etc. He has classified twenty such families so far. The author also holds that this is the least we can do for them and that we should, in a way, repay them by remembering them in this way. Almost nothing has been written about some of these families, and many people don’t know that they even existed. There are certain written facts about some of the families, but they are insufficient, and, most often, only about the most prominent scholar of that family, while the rest of the family remains almost unknown. This is the way some of these families will, literally, be saved from oblivion.