REACTION OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ISLAMIC COMMUNITY IN ONE PART OF B&H PRESS TO SARAJEVO ASSASSINATION

Abstract

UDK 28-1:323.285(497.6 Sarajevo)¨1914¨(05)

The article points to the attitude of representatives of the Islamic Community towards the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in the year 1914, on the bases of some BiH press releases of the time. Historian Husnija Kamberović has reviewed a part of the press concerning the assassination of archduke Ferdinand in general and indirectly pointed to the attitude of the Islamic Community towards the event. However, more elaborated analysis of reactions of the Islamic Community to the assassination has not been published. Due to considerably limited access to the archives of the Islamic Community for the year1914, we opted for the analysis of a part of BiH press releases, specifically official journal Sarajevski list, used by researchers mentioned in this article in interpreting the conditions of the time and some press of Muslim provenance, i.e., newspaper Vakat and the official gazette of the Islamic Community Jeni Misbah. Even though it is not its primary aim, the article also considers the reactions of Bosniak people to the assassination in as much as it provides the general atmosphere involving the people for whom the Islamic Community is the umbrella religious institution. In accordance with the earlier research works of this period, and with a purpose of differentiating peoples / confessions, we decided to use the term “Bosniak”. In quotations we remained consistent with rules of the press of the time period we dealt with.