O širenju islama u Bosni s posebnim osvrtom na srednju Bosnu
About Spreading of Islam in Bosnia with Special Regard to Middle Bosnia

Summary/Abstract: This contribution to the issue of spreading of Islam in Bosnia together with the previously published paper referring to the district of north-eastern Bosnia (POF XVI-XVII, 1970, 5-48) represents an unity being its first part regarding the period of time . Firstly, the author deals with the earliest papers written by Bašagić, Zinkeisen and Asboth analysing their sources according to which, during the first Ottoman positions in Vrhbosna that lasted about three decades (1435-1463) as well as by their very conquest of Bosnia ( 463), numerous groups of Bosnian population accepted Islam. Such starting course of this process could be indicated by the fact that in early Ottoman period numerous persons, descendants of Bosnia landowners, appeared as Moslems, that is various officials of new authority and legators of important islamic sacral buildings and their vakifs.

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