KURŠUMLI MEDRESA - “MALA UNIVERZA”
KURSHUMLI MADRASAH (ISLAMIC SCHOOL) - “SMALL UNIVERSE”

Summary/Abstract: Bosnia and Herzegovina as a state, and certainly as a society, has been denied since the very appearance of national, rather nationalist movements in the neighborhood for two centuries. It has also been proved by the aggression against Bosnia and Herzegovina, especially against Bosnia- Hercegovinian society at the end of the 20th century, i.e. from 1992 to 1995. There are persistently recurring historical lies according to which Bosnia has never existed, despite all the evidence offered by its material and spiritual culture. When we talk about institutional education, all modern European countries associate institutional education with the very first high schools, the first universities in the modern sense of the word, which emerged as medieval institutions started by the Catholic Church, while the first teachers were priests, which was quite normal at that time. As it is recorded, the first such institution (university) was established in Europe in Bologna in 1088, followed by everyone else around the Europe. However, in Bosnia and Herzegovina that is not the case. If we accept the fact that earlier regimes, for imperialist, hegemonic or ideological reasons, refused to acknowledge that the institutional higher education began long before it was officially claimed (after the World War II), the question is why democratic and “our” pro-Bosnian (?) authorities have not changes anything for more than twenty years? Do the Bosnian (especially Bosniak) political elites, retain in education ideologies that aim to speak about our culture as a non-European culture?

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