Stari muslimanski nišani u Tuzima
OLD MUSLIM NISHANES IN TUZI

Summary/Abstract: The gravestones from the old Cemetery and the cemetery next to the Nizam Mosque in Tuzi have a lot to do with Malisor steles, stećci and gravestones from Bosnia and Herzegovina that belong to the second half of the 15th and 16th centuries.As Bešlagić states, the Malisor stelae could belong to the 17th and 18th centuries, so the Muslim gravestones from Tuzi are not decorated like the gravestones from Vuksan Lekić, i.e. like the steles of Malisor.Due to the Islamic faith, the decorative art on the gravestones is poorer than these steles and stećci. On the other hand, the Bosnian- Herzegovinian oldest gravestones, who represented all the ornamentation from the stećci, received a slightly poorer decoration because of the Islamic faith, because Islam was against decorating gravestones. All these stories and explanations could chronologically place the Muslim gravestones from Tuzi in the 17th century, as well as the Malisor stelae, because the gravestones were carved from the same Maidan, and this is confirmed by the stelae and pillars that we see in both cemeteries (Old Cemetery and Malisors Cemetery). The connection with the Bosnian-Herzegovinian gravestones and the Tuzi gravestones is very close, but the Tuzi gravestones have a lot of decorative motifs similar to those on the Malisor stelae. Thus, we can say that these gravestones started to be erected when the Malisor women were also on the stelae, because the Malisorians transferred their culture as much as possible to Islam, and this can be seen on the graveoldstones of both religions.

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