Nihad Dostovic

University of Sarajevo · Oriental Institute

This paper provides study of waqf records in Sidjil of Memleḥateyn kadı / judge in Sanjak of İzvornik. It is one of the rare archival sources of 17th century for Sanjak of Izvornik, at the time in Eyalet of Bosnia, and the whole north-eastern part of today’s Bosnia and Herzegovina, which was preserved until today. Documents regarding waqfs were rec...

Sadržaj ovog Zbornika je, pored očekivanih orijento¬loških radova sačinjenih na osnovu osmansko-turskih, arapskih ili perzij¬skih izvora, značajno obogaćen pogledom na kulturnohistorijske tokove u Bosni pod osmanskom upravom iz perspektive Drugoga, kako po pitanju korištenih izvora tako i po pitanju autora sa znanstvenim i stručnim kom¬petencijama...

This paper presents accounts in the Ottoman language on the movement of Hamzevis and their activities written by the famous mufti and muderis of Belgrade Munīrī Belġrādī by the beginning of the 17th century. In two of his seventeen works that are known to us, Belġrādī speaks directly about the Hamzevis, their founder and activities, and in two work...

This paper gives a shorter analysis of some data on janissaries in the region of Tuzla recorded as documents of fragmentary Sicill of Tuzla. These are preserved in the Tuzla Sharia court record of 1054-55/1644-46 in the Gazi Husrev Bey Library in Sarajevo, as a part of the bequest of Osman Asaf-ef. Sokolović. Many of the records, be it shorter or l...

This work consists of a transcription, a translation and a detailed analysis of two important documents from the Tuzla sijjil from 1644–45, now stored in Gazi Husrev-beg Library as part of the Osman Asaf Sokolović collection. This article seeks to draw attention to a methodological approach to sijjils by way of a detailed analysis, which can offer...

The resolutions issued by Bosnian Muslim political, religious and social elites during the second half of 1941 represent a dramatic peak in the Bosnian Muslim politics of the pre-communist era. These resolutions did not have any substantial impact on what was happening in the Nezavisna Država Hrvatska (Independent State of Croatia, hereafter NDH)....