ALIMSKE PORODICE: MUZAFERIJE-SABRIHAFIZOVIĆIU
THE FAMILIES OF SCHOLARS (ALIM): THE MUZAFERIJA-HAFIZOVICS

Summary/Abstract: One of the most important families of scholars in Sarajevo and in the whole of Bosnia-Herzegovina is certainly the Muzaferija-Sabrihafizovic family. The first known local lecturer (Muderris) of the Gazi Husrev-beg School (Madrassah) in Sarajevo was Hajji Husein-efendi, son of Muzafer, the founder of the family, who taught for more than 40 years in this highest place of Bosniac learning in the Ottoman period. He was an astronomer and writer and he wrote an interesting Hronika (The Chronicle), preserved only in fragments by Mr. Muhamed Enver Kadic. He had a rich collection of oriental manuscripts, inherited and further enriched by his offspring, who later made it into a public endowment (Vakf). His son, Abdullah was broadly educated and a very capable man, an inventor of the mobile bridge used in efforts to defend Bosnia against numerous and repeated attacks by the Austro-Hungarians. Husein’s grandson, Ibrahim, was Sufi and a renowned astronomer.

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