Islamska zajednica i muslimansko žensko pitanje u Bosni i Hercegovini
Islamic Community and Muslim Woman Question in Bosnia and Herzegovina between the Two World Wars

Summary/Abstract: This paper deals with the relationship of the Islamic community towards the Muslim women issue in Bosnia and Herzegovina between the two World Wars (1918-1941). In the interwar period, the Islamic community was a very important institution providing vital support and protection to Bosniaks at a fateful moment. Therefore, the attitude of the Islamic community towards this issue was very important for its resolution. In the interwar period of Bosnian history, characterized by degradation and denationalization of the Bosniak people, the resolution of vital national issues, including the Muslim women issue, was imposed on Bosniaks. In the mentioned period, the Bosniak (Muslim) intelligence, which was divided into traditionalists and modernists, considered the following aspects of the Muslim women issue: the traditional costume of the Bosnian/Muslim woman-hijab, cultural and educational emancipation, the participation of Muslim women in public life, the character of the Bosnian women issue, women rights in Islam and employment and work outside the home. The Islamic community supported the traditionalistic approach to the Muslim / Bosniak women issue. All its organs and institutions demonstrated institutional unity. Reform and modernization of Islamic and Muslim practice is possible only within the framework of Sharia. The modernist approach promoted reform of the social position and status of Muslim women.Religious officials were divided into two camps: traditionalists and religious modernists. The most famous religious modernist was reis Dzemaludin Causevic. The Islamic community represented the thesis that the women issue is exclusively a religious and ethical one. It is, of course, also a national issue to a certain extent if faith and the Islamic tradition are seen as important components of Bosniak nationality and individuality. In the opinion of the Islamic community, moral and educational aspects of the Muslim women issue needed to be given primacy.

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