THE ROLE OF MAKTAB IN PRESERVING THE TEACHINGS OF THE MATURIDI SCHOOL OF AQAID IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA (1900-1950.)

Abstract

UDK 28-472(497.6)"1900/1950"
          37:28(497.6)"1900/1950"

A study of aqaid, as a fundamental Islamic traditional science, holds a primary place in all the institutions and at all the levels of religious education: in maktabs, madrasas, in Islamic studies taught at civil schools as well as in the highest educational institutions in Bosnia and Herzegovina. This article focuses upon the role of maktab in preserving the continuity of teachings of the Maturidi School of aqaid in the first half of the twentieth century. It also gives an account of notable efforts made by our religious and other leaders in assuring that Bosniaks, starting from the earliest point, are given the opportunity, in the new system of different cultural, ideological and social values, to learn the tenants of Islamic faith and traditional way of living. Thus all the innovative concepts of teaching the maktab class, throughout this period, authentically preserved the faith (aqidah) and religious practice (fiqh) of Ahli Sunnah, Hanefi-Maturidi in the same form as it was inherited from the Ottoman times.