مجلة آفاق للأبحاث السياسية والقانونية
Volume 1, Numéro 2, Pages 241-254
2018-11-01

Contribution Of Dr. Ahmad Smailovic To The Islamic Community Of Former Yougoslavia (bosnia And Herzegovina)

Authors : Nasih Osmanović .

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to present the importance and contirbution of the big eastern-european schollar Dr. Ahmad Smajlovic. All his life he was working in order to improve develop and to strenghten the islamic community of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Eastern Europe in general. It is worth to mention that he lived and worked in the time of atheistic Yougoslavia with secularistic regime in which islamic education was only mostly thought inside the families. That time was not easy to give speach about Islam and particulary establish islamic institution. Dr. Ahmad was one of the founder of Islamic University of Sarajevo and one of the establisher of islamic center in Zagreb (Croatia), where the Islamic Secondary school as the main component of the center named „Madrash of dr. Ahmad Smajlovic“. Hence, his breavness and effort was realy much appreciated from today scholars all over the world.

Keywords

islamic community, education, orientalism, former Yougoslavia