ODNOS BOSANSKOHERCEGOVAČKE ULEME PREMA NACIONALNOM PITANJU U MONARHISTIČKOJ JUGOSLAVIJI
THE ATTITUDE OF BOSNIAN ULEMA TOWARDS THE NATIONAL QUESTION IN THE YUGOSLAV KINGDOM

Summary/Abstract: This paper deals with several questions: general views of the Bosnian Muslim religious officials – ulema – on the issue of nation and nationalism in the Yugoslav kingdom (1918-1941); their attitudes towards the ruling national paradigmas during different phases of the first Yugoslavia; the extent to which their national orientations influenced national views and consciousness of broad Muslim/Bosniak masses and whether the individual national identities of the ulema had substantial or only pragmatic and profitable background. In this work the author argues and explains that the interwar Bosnian ulema, primarily interested and devoted to their religious, class and personal priorities, did not have a consistent viewpoint on the national question in Yugoslavia, thereby helping the preservation and strengthening of the separate Bosnian Muslim/Bosniak national identity, which would be officially recognized during the Communist regime in the sixties.

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