BOSNIAK ‘ALIMS IN NEW MUALLIM

Abstract

UDK 28-725(497.6)

Novi Muallim is a magazine of the Ilmijja Assosiation in Bosnia and Herzegovina and thus it is natural that ulama is one of the fields covered within the content of topics of the magazine. This field is dedicated to imams, mu’allims, religious studies teachers, muderrises, muftis, raisu-l-ulamas, but also to all those Islamic scholars who aided the mission of the Islamic Community through various intellectual endeavours. In this work we present Bosniak, but also the other ulama through a textual analysis of articles published in Novi Muallim in the past twenty years. This analysis show that Novi Muallim published articles dealing with biographies of renowned Bosniak ulama and that most commonly at the occasion of their death or birth anniversaries. It was also noted that the magazine published articles dealing with ulama from Sarajevo mostly and very rarely with ulama outside of Sarajevo. Keeping in mind that we have many noteworthy scholars throughout the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina, this article may also serve as an invitation to all future contributors to the magazine Novi muallim to write about their own local imams and mua’llims.