PORODICA SIKIRIĆA U RUKOPISIMA BOŠNJAČKOG INSTITUTA U CIRIHU
SIKIRIĆ FAMILY IN THE MANUSCRIPTS OF THE BOSNIANS’ INSTITUTE IN ZÜRİCH

Summary/Abstract: This work gives some new information on the genealogy of this famous dervish family, founded by Abdurrahman Sirri (1775-1847), whose members were seihs of Nakşibendi Teki in Oglavak near Fojnica. Manuscripts also contain poems and other historical and literary texts by Sirri’s ancestors, grandfather and father, and his grandchildren Behauddin Sikirić and his brother Hamdija. There are also two original poetry collections and other remarks written by Behauddin Sikirić, who ran Oglavak teki during the first two decades of this century. Most important manuscript from the collection of the Bosnians’ Institute in Zürich related to the Sikirić family, called Divan of Abdurrahman Sirri, contains the register (silsila) of the nakšibendi leaders, of the so called, restaurateurs’ (muğaddid) order, that shows which ancestors were recognized before the founder, Muhammed Behauddin Naqsibandi, and which religious scholars this order includes, all the way to the God’s Prophet Muhammed. Publication of this new information in this work considerably broadens the knowledge of the history of the tesavvuf thought in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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