"MUALLIM", INTELLECTUAL WAQF OF REIS ČAUŠEVIĆ

Abstract

The author here, using method of text analysis and historical method, analyses social, historical, cultural and ideological context as well as the reforming ideas within Islamic thought of Bosnia and Herzegovina at the time of initiation the magazine "Muallim". He introduces us to the belated religious modernism of reisu-l-ulema Mehmed Džemaludin Čaušević, published in different times and with different titles in the magazine "Muallim". The author points out that it was the launching of this magazine itself represents a turning point within the Islamic discourse of the twentieth century, thus marking and initiating contemporary and modern intellectual discourse in BiH. Reis Čaušević was a visionary behind this magazine as well as the initiator of The Muslim mu‘alim and imam society of BiH, that would later become I’lmiyya society of Bosnia and Herzegovina, thus planting the seed of the future generations of young and learned Islamic intellectuals ready to face the challenges of all sociopolitical and ideological circumstances. Today magazine "Muallim" is the best representative of the ideas and goals that reis Cauševic dreamed of at the time when he was initiating this magazine and the society mentioned earlier.