The Financial Position Of The Islamic Community And Its Religious Officials In Socialist Yugoslavia
The Financial Position Of The Islamic Community And Its Religious Officials In Socialist Yugoslavia

Summary/Abstract: Implementing its policy, the new socialist government took various system-atic measures to confiscate the major part of the property of the Islamic Community and, thus, make it dependant on the constant state aid. Understand-ing the reality and acting cooperatively and pragmatically, the newly elected leadership regulated their relations with the state and, thus, created the necessary room for manoeuvre, in order to lessen the harshness of taken measures, preserve the material substance and establish the basis for constant economic strengthening of the community and its religious officials. Carefully and cautiously implemented measures for solving the issue of vakuf properties, that initially had the form of registration and basic protection against dilapidation and, later, gained their original sense expressed through the standpoint that the proper attitude of all the structures of the religious community and the believers towards that issue was of crucial importance for preservation of Islam on Yugoslav territories. The processes of democratization and creating institutional assumptions for opening and solving some important issues, encouraged the Muslim intellectuals to start the debate on the confiscated property, and the Islamic Community leadership to publicly demand its return and use for the de-velopment of the Islamic education and culture...

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