PREGLED ARHIVSKE GRAĐE RIJASETA ISLAMSKE ZAJEDNICE U BOSNI I HERCEGOVINI
A survey of the Archive materials in the Riyasat of the Islamic Community in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Summary/Abstract: The Archive of the Riyasat of the Islamic Community in Bosnia and Herzegovina is placed in the Gazi Husrev-bey Library in the street of Hamdije Kresevljakovica no. 58 in Sarajevo. The full title of the archive is “Archive of the Riyasat of the Islamic Community in Bosnia and Herzegovina”. Acronym of archive is ARIZBIH. The archive materials originated from the functioning of the organs and institutions of the Islamic community in Bosnia and Herzegovina between the years 1882-1970. The amount of the materials, expressed in the length is more than 450 meters. The materials are completely preserved, arranged and accessible to the scholars and researchers. It presents irreplaceable sources of cultural inheritance of the Islamic Community in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Bosnians as well. Most of the materials are written in Bosnian, fewer in Osmanli, German, Arabic and another languages. Archive materials are related to the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Content wise is related to materials derived from the work and functioning of the institutions and organs of the Islamic Community in Bosnia and Herzegovina. All archive materials can be divided into four periods depending of the moment of the origin. Those periods are: The period of the Austria-Hungary administration The period of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia The period of the German occupation and “Independent state of Croatia” The period of socialistic regime of Yugoslavia Materials that originated during Austro-Hungarian period are completely preserved, composed and accessible to researchers. The language is Osmanli, Bosnian, German and Arabic. The alphabet is Latin and Arabic. Materials are related to the period from the year 1882-1918. For research one can use protocols, minutes, records, directory and other archive materials.

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