Uloga časopisa “Tarik” u vjersko-prosvjetnom i kulturnom životu Bošnjaka/muslimana
The Role of the Tarik Magazine in Religious Education and Cultural Life of Bosniacs/Muslims

Summary/Abstract: Occupation by Austria-Hungary led Bosnia and Herzegovina into a new historical era, removing it from the Islamic-Oriental civilisation and accelerating its entry into the sphere of European culture and civilisation. One of the most important tools in the quest for identity of, first of all, the Bosniacs / Muslims, national as well as cultural, religious, linguistic, political… in the circumstances of inter-cultural communication, was the role of printed publication written in the Arabic script, i.e. the promotion of cultural heritage and its philological research. The principal source for studying these complex social relations in BiH under Austrian rule are the archival documents from the period from 1878 until 1918, as well as daily and weekly publications of the time. They appeared towards the end of the Austrian rule – seemingly a short and historically negligible period (just before World War I), but one of the most turbulent periods in the history of Bosnia and Herzegovina. There are two principal factors that determine the research of Aljamiado periodicals. The first is the type of script, Arabic in this case (with letters adapted to the Bosnian language) and the second is the printing and copying technique. Tarik was the first of four publications printed in the Arabic script. The themes of the magazine were versatile, with the dominant ones including: the establishment of the Seat of the Islamic Community in BiH, establishment of Muslim religious institutions, movement of population to Turkey, national policies of Austria-Hungary in BiH, Bosniac policies, political organisation, Muslim struggle for religious and educational self-governance, reflections of the Young Turks revolution, annexation, linguistic peculiarities of the Bosnian language, presentation of the area 'at the edge of journalism and Orientalism', language and language polices of magazines, literary contributions, global politics…

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