ISLAMIC EDUCATION IN SECULAR SCHOOLING SYSTEMS WITH A FOCUS ON CONTRIBUTIONS MADE TO THE STUDIES OF AQAID (1900-1950)

Abstract

UDK: 37.014:28

Religious education of Bosniaks was a continuous process in secular as well as in the institutions of religious education and upbringing throughout the second half of the twentieth century. In this article, we primarily aimed at presenting the numerous challenges facing the Muslims in Bosnia and Herzegovina in their attempts to establish an up-to-date Islamic education within the secular schooling system of the time. During this period, amongst the most significant issues, the Islamic Community dealt with improving the standards of religious education studies alongside: restructuring of Islamic education, reforms of teaching plans and programs, textbooks in the Bosnian language, and staffing. Since the education system supported by the state was better organized, thus the subject of religious studies in state schools was progressing faster than religious education which was arranged within religious institutions. We here especially focused on textbooks for religious studies that contained prevailingly aqaid topics since some of those became known as comprehensive works in aqaid and are highly esteemed to the present day.  We also listed a significant number of renowned teachers of Islamic religious studies who made outstanding contributions to the development of aqaid in the first half of the twentieth century.