Dva velikana osmanistike: Hazim Šabanović i Adem Handžić
TWO GIANTS OF OTTOMAN SCHOLARSHIP: HAZIM ŠABANOVIĆ AND ADEM HANDŽIĆ

Summary/Abstract: In 2016 marks 100 years of the birth of two great scholars: Hazim Šabanović and Adem Handžić. Both of them were Ottoman scholar-historians and Orientalists as well as Islamic jurists-high graduates of Islamic Sharia-theological school (VIST). The institution known as VIST has given not only numerous of Islamic jurists-and-theologians, but numerous of graduates who have gained great reputation in ex-Yugoslavia as well as scholars from the humanities, museum professionals, archivists, bibliographers, librarians, administrative officials, judges, lawyers, even doctors and engineers. This indicates the high quality of not only Islamic, but also the general, education that could be acquired in that institution. Both Šabanović and Handžić were born in 1916 - the first in Poriječani near Visoko, and other in Tešanj. They both finished Gazi Husrev-bey High School (1935) and VIST (1940). Both were briefly worked as judge-trainees (1940-42). For a long time, they were colleagues - employees at the Oriental Institute in Sarajevo. They both made a huge contribution to the world Ottoman scholarship and better knowledge of Ottoman Bosnia and the Ottoman Balkans. In many other aspects their spiritual biographies were different so it is the best to write separately about the importance of their contribution. This article will first deal with Šabanović, then Handžić.

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