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Intervju s dr. Mustafom Hasanijem, dekanom Fakulteta islamskih nauka Univerziteta u Sarajevu

Abstract

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Faculty of Islamic Studies of Sarajevo University (FIN) is the most important higher education institution of the Islamic Community of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Its dean, prof. Dr. Mustafa Hasani in this interview talks about the significance and the role of imams and mua’llims regarding their mission, as well as about the expectations of society in contemporary times, challenges facing the students of this faculty, who are simultaneously future employees of the Islamic Community as imams, hatibs, mua’llims teachers for the subject of Islamic religious studies in schools, professors of Islamic studies. Besides the challenge of arranging the teaching plan and programme of this faculty to bring it into alignment with standards of higher education, requirements of contemporary times and the needs of the Islamic Community which, in turn,  is required to organise religious and educational activities within the community in Bosnia and Herzegovina as well as in its diaspora, the faculty is also faced with the challenge of adequate understanding of diverse manifestation of subjective spirituality in youth which is not attempting to define its religious sentiment within the institutionalised exegesis of Islam in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Professor Hasani also reflected on the topic of the continuity of reform in this faculty and also gave some insight into the latest reform of higher education implemented by the Islamic Community in Bosnia and Herzegovina.