WHY IS THE BOSNIAN TAKWIM DISREGARDED

Abstract

The article critically considers the validity of the fatwa that is issued in October last year concerning the changing of the date of Arafat. This fatwa changed the date of Arafat that had been published in the Takweem of the Riyaset of the Islamic Community. The author holds and elaborates that this decision to change the date is controversial and insubstantial and indicates that the Bosnian Takweem is challenged deliberately by issuing this fatwa much before the Saudi Ullama decided about taking place of the day of Arafat, last year. The text also brings a short historical survey of numerous discussions of ulama concerning the topic of establishing the Islamic calendar. As a special enclosure to the text the author brings semantic and the tefsir explanations of the Kur’anic terminology about the stages of the moon and the beginning of the month of Ramadan to help in understanding the differing views concerning the issue.