OFFICIALS SPECIALIZED IN SHARI’AH LAW DURING THE AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN PERIOD IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA (1878–1918)
OFFICIALS SPECIALIZED IN SHARI’AH LAW DURING THE AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN PERIOD IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA (1878–1918)

Summary/Abstract: During the Austro-Hungarian period in Bosnia and Herzegovina, a number of non-Muslim Austro-Hungarian officials, as well as Bosnian Muslims themselves, specialized in shari’ah law. Their interest in shari’ah law was motivated by a desire to become acquainted with what formed an integral part of the traditional civilization code of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Muslims. In that way, they correspond exactly to the concept of European orientalists who studied Islamic civilization. Adalbert Schek, Franjo Kruszelnicki, Mihail Zobkow, Ljudevit Farkaš and Eugen Sladović are among the Austro-Hungarian legal practitioners and scholars in Bosnia and Herzegovina who studied shari’ah law, and achieved important results in that field.

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