Why Did the Picturesque Town Receive the Aureole of Holiness? Cover Image

Zašto je živopisni gradić dobio aureolu svetosti?
Why Did the Picturesque Town Receive the Aureole of Holiness?

Author(s): Esad Ćimić
Subject(s): Cultural Essay, Political Essay, Societal Essay
Published by: Hrvatsko Filozofsko Društvo
Keywords: perennial philosophy; Stolac; Bosnia and Herzegovina; islam; town; čaršija; Rusmir Mahmutćehajić

Summary/Abstract: This article is a review of the book The Stolac Čaršija. In the Light of the Perennial Philosophy by Bosnian scholar, writer and intellectual Rusmir Mahmutćehajić. According to the author, two indisputable qualities of Mahmutćehajić’s book are the colossally depicted scope of the perennial philosophy (philosophia perennis) as well as the outstanding creation of its application in the case of old Herzegovinian town of Stolac.

  • Issue Year: 30/2010
  • Issue No: 01-02
  • Page Range: 323-333
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Croatian