ATTITUDES OF ULAMA ABOUT SHARIA LEGAL STATUS OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA UNDER AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN RULE Cover Image

STAVOVI ULEME O ŠERIJATSKOPRAVNOM STATUSU BOSNE I HERCEGOVINE POD AUSTROUGARSKOM UPRAVOM
ATTITUDES OF ULAMA ABOUT SHARIA LEGAL STATUS OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA UNDER AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN RULE

Author(s): Mustafa Hasani
Subject(s): History of Law, Political history, Islam studies, Government/Political systems, Politics and law, Politics and religion, 19th Century, Sharia Law
Published by: Fakultet islamskih nauka u Sarajevu
Keywords: Hijra (migration) of Muslims from the Balkans; Congress of Berlin; the Austro-Hungarian occupation of Bosnia; Mustafa Sidki Karabeg; Mustafa Hilmi Hadžiomerović; Mehmed Azapagić Tawfiq;

Summary/Abstract: This paper aims to present the views of the Bosnian ulama about one of the biggest challenges facing the Bosniaks in their history in this area. This is an issue of migration or Hijra of Bosniaks from Bosnia at the time of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The issue of migration of that time reveals a number of Bosniaks‟ dilemmas about their identity, homeland, relations between Sarajevo and Istanbul, to remain here or to leave, to fight or to accept imposed solutions, etc. The paper will also reveal the views or fatwas of the scholars outside Bosnia and Herzegovina, the official Istanbul, i.e. those who justified migration and those who did not. Different views on the same issue suggests the complexity of the then overall situation, different interests that intertwined over Bosnia and Bosnians, political un/orientation in the mirror of questioning Bosniak national identity, etc. The work also shows how Bosnian ulama responsibly and wisely responded to social challenge and offered appropriate solutions

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 16
  • Page Range: 91-114
  • Page Count: 24
  • Language: Bosnian