ORGANIZATION AND OPERATION BEHRAM MEDRESAH TUZLA IN THE EVE OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR (1939-1941) Cover Image

ORGANIZACIJA I RAD BEHRAMBEGOVE MEDRESE U TUZLI UOČI DRUGOG SVJETSKOG RATA (1939-1941)
ORGANIZATION AND OPERATION BEHRAM MEDRESAH TUZLA IN THE EVE OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR (1939-1941)

Author(s): Sead Selimović
Subject(s): Cultural history, Local History / Microhistory, Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), WW II and following years (1940 - 1949)
Published by: Arhiv Tuzlanskog kantona
Keywords: Behram madrasah; World War II; education; students; teachers; Tuzla, Bosnia Herzegovina;

Summary/Abstract: Behram madrasah in Tuzla worked on the eve of the Second World War called Lower district madrassas. Manager madrasah was Salih ef. Sivčević who is in difficult conditions (primarily personnel and material or and security) had the task to organize the work of this very important educational institution. Classes are from religious subjects performed according to the teaching basis for the lower rate Gaza Husrevbey Madrasah, and from secular subjects in the program to lower real gymnasium. The students were divided into five classes (from first to fifth) and five departments. Classes are conducted on Saturdays, Sundays, Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, and Friday was a working day. They worked in two shifts: In morning and afternoon. Twelve, for that time well educated expert realized the proposed curriculum. Strength of the students ranged from 130 in the school year 1939/1940. to 128 in the academic year 1940/1941. The School achieved excellent results in learning and behavior, regardless of the difficulties they encountered. The students who have completed the madrasah were trained to work on the expansion of literacy in all parts of the country and they could continue a higher education under the same conditions as students of lower real gymnasium.

  • Issue Year: 2005
  • Issue No: 8
  • Page Range: 379-397
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian