THE FOUNDING OF THE YOUNG MUSLIMS ORGANIZATION AND ITS SPLIT WITH THE ULEMA ASSOCIATION EL HIDAYA IN 1943 Cover Image

Оснивање организације Млади муслимани и њен разлаз са илмијским удружењем ел Хидајe 1943. године
THE FOUNDING OF THE YOUNG MUSLIMS ORGANIZATION AND ITS SPLIT WITH THE ULEMA ASSOCIATION EL HIDAYA IN 1943

Author(s): Ivan Ejub Kostić
Subject(s): History, Recent History (1900 till today), Theology and Religion, Islam studies, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949)
Published by: Institut za noviju istoriju Srbije
Keywords: Young Muslims; Islam; national identity; Bosnianhood/ Bosniakhood; Bosnia and Herzegovina; social movements; World War II; Pan-Islamism; Alija Izetbegović

Summary/Abstract: The paper analyzes the establishment of the Young Muslims organization, which was formed in Sarajevo at the dawn of World War II, based on previously unpublished archival materials from the association of Young Muslims 1939, private archives, The State Archives of Serbia, Military Archives, and other relevant sources. The analysis shows the identity and ideological direction of the organization as well as its relationship to the Bosnian ulema, the statehood of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the idea of the nation, the Ustasha ideology, the Communist movement, and other ideological currents present in the time when the organization was founded.

  • Issue Year: 2023
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 137-166
  • Page Count: 30
  • Language: Serbian