ISLAMIC RELIGIOUS EDUCATION IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA IN PERIOD BETWEEN 1945 AND 1990

POLITIČKI I PRAVNI KONTEKST INSTITUCIONALIZACIJE VJERSKOG POUČAVANJA

Abstract

After the end of World War II, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and therefore the Islamic Community found itself in a new constitutional order and under circumstances which brought with them new challenges for the Islamic Community. Maktab classes represented one aspect of the educational activities of the Islamic Community consisting of elementary religious education of Muslim children. Maktab education went through a series of different structural changes in previous periods and political systems, but since the Ottoman rule until 1952, maktabs existed as independent religious education institutions, where the teaching process was carried out by qualified educators. After 1952, maktab classes were completely transferred to the facilities of mosques and masjids, and today they still exist in this form. This paper provides an overview of different events related to religious education in context of circumstances under which the Islamic Community operated between 1945 and 1990. The aim was to present the conditional transformation of religious education’s organization which was imposed by the social and political circumstances of the period.