POSITION AND PERSPECTIVES OF MAKTABS IN EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM OF ISLAMIC COMMUNITY IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

Abstract

The main goal of this paper is to offer some notes which indicate that maktab, being as an elementary educational institution, represents a permanent and open process of learning and facing new challenges. Awareness about role and importance of maktabs in creation and protection of the Islamic identity is a driving force for the Islamic Community in Bosnia and Herzegovina, its development and maintenance. Years of analytical monitoring of educational work in maktabs show that there are numerous needs as well as opportunities for wider educational operation of maktabs. at represents the main obligation challenge of the new age. By accepting that challenge, the Islamic Education Department dared take steps to transform the “classical” maktab into the “new” maktab – an institution which can meet specic educational needs of both children and adults.