Književna baština: Književnohistorijski i/ili poetološki pristup
Literary Legacy: A Literary-Historical and/or Poetological Approach

Summary/Abstract: Classical literature in Oriental-Islamic languages (Arabic, Persian and Turkish) is in modern times studied within national literary histories (including Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Bosniak). These approaches are indicative of literature’s ideological compulsion in arguing national identities, although classical literature in the aforementioned languages was exceedingly supranational, that is anational because these authors, in a poetical manner, asserted a vast, Oriental-Islamic tradition rather than a personal or national identity. Methodologically speaking, this issue concerns an inadequate contemporary attitude in approaching classical literature that was written as a supranational or international system within a vast cultural circle. Literary histories dealing with this period have not succeeded in presenting essential classical literature, as they are subordinated to historical methods. Therefore, this legacy in Oriental- Islamic languages has yet to be given adequate attention, based on the competences of poetology that demonstrate the unfounded nature of modern ethnocentric approaches.

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