ARAPSKA FILOLOGIJA U RADOVIMA MESUDA HAFIZOVIĆA
ARABIC PHILOLOGY IN THE WORKS OF MESUD HAFIZOVIĆ

Summary/Abstract: On the anniversary of Mesud Hafizović’s birth as well as his death, it is appropriate that we look at his rich body of work. Its variety is such, however, as to defy compression under a single heading or topic. I will, therefore, concentrate here on his linguistic writings, which treat a field we shared. Of a long list of 120 titles, comprising both original works and translations, published by Mesud Hafizović in Bosnian periodicals (Zemzem, Glasnik Starješinstva islamske zajednice, Zbornik radova Fakulteta islamskih nauka, Preporod, Islamska misao, Muallim, Takvim and Oslobođenje), it is the works on Arabic philology that draw my attention particularly, marked as they are by a solid thematic unity. Unlike the texts he wrote for other publications and their less academically oriented readers, the works he published in the Zbornik Fakulteta islamskih nauka were meant for a readership with a certain level of linguistic expertise. Those writings made a significant contribution to the Zbornik Fakulteta islamskih nauka and the development of Arabic Studies in Bosnia. That he was writing continuously is clear from his contributing to every issue of the Zbornik Fakulteta islamskih nauka, up to the sixth, which was published in the year of his passing away.

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