HISTORIJAT PODRINJSKE MEDRESE U ZVORNIKU
HISTORY OF THE DRINA REGION MEDRESAHS IN ZVORNIK

Summary/Abstract: As a resume to this paper I would like to set forth a critical viewpoint of a distinguished alim and a professor at Behrambey’s medresah in Tuzla, Ibrahim Čokić, who to this Schtadler’s statement replies that: “He (Schtadler, prim. B:H) has before his eyes his main wish and his ideal: to convert Muslims to Christianity. His wish was not fulfilled. Muslims are Muslims... he was bothered by nothing but medresahs... the places from where men were coming out with beards, wearing jubbe, Turkish trousers and turbans...and as such they emerged with ordinary people serving them for a bagatelle, keeping alive the faith and religious upbringing. They were teaching them that it was haram to drink, not to know the God the way Islam prescribes, to play cards and amuse themselves indecently, that Jannat was under a mother’s foot, that parents should be obeyed... that interests, that cast a pall upon any a man, were haram, that a man should beware other man’s hack, that the poor should be helped, and good relations with neighbors should be cherished; they were teaching that it was sawab to visit mosques and lectures, it was bad to flirt with other man’s wife, it was sawab to put up a road and a drinking - fountain, to reconstruct a bridge... Those imams, some of them more and some of them less, set an example. Schtadler knew that neither he nor those of like mind could teach and direct a mass of people better than those imams who came out from medresahs , not even if they read them the whole Injil, from the beginning to the very end.

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