The Memorandum of Šerif Arnautović to Emperor Karl in 1917. Cover Image

Memorandum Šerifa Arnautovića caru Karlu 1917. godine
The Memorandum of Šerif Arnautović to Emperor Karl in 1917.

Author(s): Adnan Jahić, Edi Bokun
Subject(s): History, Recent History (1900 till today), Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919)
Published by: Institut za istoriju
Keywords: Memorandum; Šerif Arnautović; The Habsburg Monarchy; First World War; the Yugoslav issue

Summary/Abstract: In this paper the authors bring the integral text of the transcript of the Memorandum delivered to the Austrian Emperor Karl by a prominent Bosnian politician Šerif Arnautović during the audience in Vienna on 17 August 1917. The transcript, in the Bosnian language, was published by Arnautović himself as a separate during the war. Most historians did not use it in their works on political developments in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the First World War, which, together with insufficient research of the Muslim component of the Bosnian political scene during the Austro-Hun garian rule, led to certain factual errors and unsubstantiated assessment of Arnautović’s political views in the process of resolving the Yugoslav issue during the last two years of the war.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 44
  • Page Range: 145-172
  • Page Count: 35