Abdurahman Adil Čokić (1888-1954) – odlučni zagovornik vjerske edukacije i prosvjećivanja u duhu novog vremena (povodom 130. godišnjice rođenja)
ABDURAHMAN ADIL ČOKIĆ (1888-1954) - A DETERMINED PROTECTOR OF RELIGIOUS EDUCATION AND ENLIGHTENING IN THE SPIRIT OF THE NEW AGE (ON THE OCCASION OF THE 130TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS BIRTH)

Summary/Abstract: With this work we will point out the impressive written opus and the significance of the educational work of the respected Tuzla’s alim Abdurahman Adil-Effendi Čokić, as well as general reputation that has been enjoying the ulema that originated from the Čokić family for centuries. Abdurahman-Effendi Čokić could, quite surely, be among the most prominent of our alims from the first half of the twentieth century. Pedagogical and educational work and social activities by Dr Abdurahman Čokić was very fruitful and noticeable. On a scientific-research plan, he was one of the most fertile authors of his time. He published his works in almost all the important religious and national newspapers that were then published. He was the first associate to his elder brother Mufti Ibrahim-Effendi who launched the Hikjmet newspaper in 1929, and was one of the founders of the newspaper Novi Behar together with the most prominent Muslim intellectuals and writers (Reis Čaušević, Bašagić, Mulabdić, Dubravić, etc.).It is especially important to point out his intention to present more complete Islamic teaching in six books in Bosnian language, in Latin script, in which he succeeded to the extent that he also wrote and published a significant number of other works and works from many religious and social areas. Abdurahman-Effendi was one of the first Bosnian alims who wrote about religious matters exclusively in Latin in Bosnian language. With his book titled Islam, he succeeded to contribute for recognition of Islam as one of the most integral domestic works of Islamic sciences in the early decades of the twentieth century and other numerous works of affirmation of religious-cognitive possibilities as important determinants of the spiritual and cultural identity of Bosniaks in the new social reality.

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