Ćemerlić’s Engagements within the Islamic Community

(On the Occasion of the 120th Anniversary of the Birth of Hamdija Ćemerlić)

Abstract

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Academician Hamdija Ćemerlić (1905–1990) lived a life that spanned nearly the entire twentieth century. Born in Janja, he received his education in his hometown, then in Sarajevo, Belgrade, and Paris. From the 1930s onward, he worked in Bosnia and Herzegovina, particularly in Sarajevo, as a professor at the Higher Islamic Sharīʿa-Theological School (VIŠT). He later distinguished himself through his roles in the National Liberation Movement during World War II. Ćemerlić also served as Minister of Justice in the Government of the People’s Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, subsequently as a professor at the University of Sarajevo, Dean of the Faculty of Law, Rector of the University of Sarajevo, member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina, President of the Supreme Council of the Islamic Community in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and as Dean (and Acting Rector) and professor at the Islamic Theological Faculty in Sarajevo.