TRANSLATION OF KHUTBA INTO BOSNIAN LANGUAGE IN SOCIALIST BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA BETWEEN 1958 AND 1963

Abstract

UDK 28-534.2(497.6)"1958/1963"
           28-735(497.6)"1958/1963"

In introduction of this article the author relates about basic aspects of khutbah as well as about socio-political environment of Bosnia and Herzegovina after the year 1945, when the Islamic Community was faced with grave challenges that affected its functioning and its organisational structure. The author also presents a shorter review of the institution of khutbah in Bosnia and Herzegovina from the 15^th to the 20^th century. Further on, some opinions and arguments of the Bosniak ulama in the first half of the 20^th century and later regarding the need to reorganise khutbah in the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Special focus here author placed upon the issue of translation of khutbah from Arabic or Turkish into Bosnian language in the late 1950s as well as upon the „Decree “(fatwa) of the Islamic Community about translating khutbahs for Bosnian and Herzegovinian jamaats in the period from 1958 to 1963.