Arabic Grammar by Dr. Šaćir Sikirić, Muhamed Pašić and Mehmed Handžić – forty years after the last edition

Abstract

UDK 811.411.21¨36(075)

This article recollects the time, cultural and historical circumstances, of this publication, from the first initiative, public invitation, setting the conditions and the final decision of the Majlis of the IC to start the project Gramatika arapskog jezika. The decision to entrust this project to eminent scholars in the field of oriental philology, renowned interpreters and prominent intellectuals engaged in social development, Dr Šaćir Sikirić, professor and the director of Sharia Law School, Muhamed Pašić, director of Sharia law Gymnasium, and Mehmed Handžić, mudarris and director of Gazi Husrev-bey Madrasa, was brought at the session of the Ulama-majlis held on October 3^rd 1934. Ahmed Mehmedbašić and Ahmed Burek were selected to write a review of the textbook. These scholars were engaged in this project for a year and a half. The decision was made to deliver the manuscript straight after its completion for publishing at State Press in Sarajevo, thus to have a textbook ready for the academic 1937, for the students of Madrasa and other related schools. Since its first edition in 1936, Gramatika arapskog jezika, by Dr. Šaćir Sikirić, Muhamed Pašić and Mehmed Handžić, has seen three official editions, the last was in the year 1984.