CONTINUITY OF TRADITION OF DU’A GATHERING IN OLOVO: FROM QURBAN ROCK TO SHAHEED’S MEZARISTAN IN SOLUN

Abstract

UDK 28-523-744(497.6 Olovo)

To the present-day city of Olovo has preserved the tradition of du’a (supplication to Allah) gatherings in certain places which are of significance to the local Muslim community. Traditional du’as of Olovo are not only a ritual but also have an exceptional social role and significance. Thus every Muslim place that has in time developed sufficiently to have its masjid or a mosque, tended to have its own du’a. Newly established du’a site’s tradition would consequently be linked to a certain date marking either the day of the opening of a mosque or, as is the case with Shaheed’s du’a in Solun, which is observed on the day of the burial of the first martyred soldier of the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina in that Shaheed mezaristan.  In this article the author, on the bases of research conducted on the terrain and on available published data, presents traditional du’a sites of Olovo which were held before the aggression on Bosnia and Herzegovina as well as the newly formed tradition of du’a gatherings that show continuity of this particular religious phenomenon in the region of Olovo.