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The topic of the article is the concept of prosperity in the perspective of social work. „Prosperity“ is not a constant quantity, it is considered in a political context and decided in a discursive process. Participants have obviously unequal opportunities to influence this decision. The notion of discourse about the welfare goes beyond functionalist theories and is searching for its normative basis.
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In the article the experience of consulting activities in the educational systems of Ukraine, Great Britain, Germany, New Zealand, Poland, the USA, Sweden, France, Japan and other countries has been analyzed. Specialists who provide advice at schools are defined. The main qualification requirements regarding the specialists of the educational counseling have been provided; the functional duties of the school consultant within different parts of education have been defined. Duties of school social pedagogues/workers have been studied; the objectives of school counseling of social pedagogues/workers have been identified. Positions which are possible to take into account in determination of maintenance of consulting activities of social pedagogues in Ukraine are set.
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This article presents Akhisar (Prusac), a place where Hasan Kafi Pruščak (1544–1615/16), according to the available relevant sources was born and later lived. Documented reference of Akhisar is found in Qanun-nama of Sanjak of Bosnia from the year 1516. More detailed data of Akhisar settlement is found in records of census of Sanjak of Klis, to which this area was adjoined after its establishment in 1537. In the first census of Akhisar within the Sanjak of Klis dating from the year 1550, itwas classified, in terms of significance, first as a fort and later as a varoš (settlement). In year 1574 Akhisar is recorded as kasaba (small city), what tells us it fulfilled all the requirements for changing the status from varoš to kasaba. After the Cretan War and after the loss of Klis earlier in the year 1648, it remained a part of the Sanjak of Klis. It developed as kasaba, especially as a cultural and educational centre, which particularly reflects the efforts of Hasan Kafi Pruščak and other eminent scholars that followed. With the intention to determine precise location where Kafi lived and worked a certain period, the author here also presents locality of Nevabad/Novasel todays Donji Vakuf, and concludes that Hasan Kafi actually worked there at the same time while living and working in Akhisar.
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The subject of this article is a concise review and interpretation of relevance, significance and range of the legacy of Hasan Kafi. Basic ideas regarding Kafi’s work are presented in the text titled “Hasan Kafi Pruščak (1544.-1615.) – four hundred years after” published in the Official Gazette of Riyasat, vol. LXXXVII., 2015., here are elaborated and substantiated with arguments. This article also refers to earlier research works that are accountable for credible and authentic presentation of Hasan Kafi Pruščak and his work. Even though some of his works are yet not found, the opus of Hasan Kafi Pruščak (1544–1615) “the pioneer of Arabic and Islamic studies in Bosnia and Herzegovina” (Nakičević), has been to a great extent discovered, presented, translated and critically evaluated in Bosnian as well as in other languages.
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The article deals with cultural significance of the first multilingual edition of “Principles of Wisdom for the Order of the World” (Usulu’l-Hikem fi Nizami’l-Alem), the most imporantt work of Hasan Kafi, the significance of which surpasses by far an occasional character. Cultural significance of multilingual edition of Kafi’s renowned work “Principles of Wisdom for the Order of the World” is far more than a collection of historical facts and cannot be reduced to a contemplative unit of single significance. Pivotal value of Kafi’s work is contained actually in its openness to a free contemplative act which is to be found in Western Europe only after the seventeenth century, and which in later times, according to the author of the article, has been lost in many Muslim nations. In this the author sees a multiple sense of “later life “of Kafi’s work during the last four centuries. The article stresses upon some relevant points and examples of Kafi’s contemplative and critical position which oblige us today to a historical abridgement of a long chain of events, concepts and memories that have imbued, deformed and exalted Kafi’s original thought and which is exactly what makes us see in Hasan Kafi a thinker that obliges us with contemplative reasons and historical activism that for him and his contemporaries may have had a different meaning.
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Arabic stylistics has seen its peak in times of Sekkaki and Qazwini, and here in Bosnia it was during the time of Hasan Kafi Prusčak. From that time onwards no serious work in this field has appeared until the time of the Arabic revival in19th century. Sekkaki (555-626/1160-1228) is frontrunner of these three. In his encyclopedic work Miftahu l-’ulumi (Key to knowledge) in the final, third part of which he brought a review of the Arabic stylistics given in all three parts. Qazwini (666-739/1267-1338) is the author of Talkhis al-Miftâh (Summary of the “Key”) considered to be the most successful redaction of Sekkaki’s work. He is also the author of Al-Idah fi ‘ulumi l-belaga (The clarification of the science of rhetoric) considered by scholars to be a commentary on Talkhis, or rather a clarification of some ideas in that work, as is suggested in the title itself. Pruščak (951-1024/1544-1615) edited Qazwini’s Talkhis and titled it Temhisu l-Talkhisi (Analysis of the “Summary”). Pruščak wrote the concept of the work in 1599, whereas the final redaction he completed in 1602, as is stated on the last page of the manuscript kept in Gazi Husrev-bey’s library in Sarajevo. Some questions that were ambiguous in Temhis, he clarified in his commentary upon Temhis.
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In this article we bring most relevant opinions reflected in El-Hikem fi Nizami’l-alem, where Hasan Kafi defines elements that can be harmful to a society and can cause its breakdown. Here we mentioned three types of causes that can destabilize a social system. According to Kafi these can be viewed as: a) signs of decline of a society, b) signs of a downfall of a state and c) certain negative phenomenon and praxes applied during consultations in attempt to find a solution, and are actually leading to a failure.
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Hasan Kafi Pruščak is one of the most renowned Islamic scholars in Balkans. In the field of Aqaid he wrote a number of outstanding works of which “Gardens of Paradise on Principles of Creed” (Rewdatul-džennat fi usūl al-i‘tiqādāt) is one of the most significant wherein he summed up most relevant works on Aqaid studied in Islamic schools of our area in that time. This book was translated and published in our language. As the book received much attention, upon requests of some distinguished people, he wrote commentary on this work and titled it Flowers of the Gardens in interpretation of The Gardens of Paradise (Ezharur-rewdat fi šerhi Rewdatul-džennat. Regrettably, this book is not well known to our readers due to the fact that it remained unpublished for a very long time, then it was edited and published in Arabic language. In this article the author presents this work of Hasan Kafi, his motives for writing it, Kafi’s attitude towards ‘Ilm el-Kalam, methodology and sources he used and some of the issues in the field of Aqaid treated by Kafi in his works.
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The article offers the analysis, in qualitative and quantitative respect, of the references to the Sunnah of the Messenger p.b.u.h. in the work Usulu’l-Hikem fi Nizami’l-Alem of Hasan Kafi Pruščak. Researching this undoubtedly most renowned work of Hasan Kafi Pruščak we attempted to analyze to what extent is hadith and various other forms of Sunnah represented in his work and to establish the authenticity of the same. Finally, through content analysis we examined if they correspond to the context in which those are quoted, and generally, we wanted to see whether or not the Sunnah is established as reference framework of Kafi’s discourse.
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In this article the author presents the works of Hasan Kafi in the field of Aqaid, basic terminology and concepts of Ahl al-Sunnah teachings that were advocated in the works of Kafi and finally the idea of factionalism as a challenge to those teachings. Besides presenting Kafis opinions and quotations regarding these concepts, listing of the sources that Kafi used as references in his books, the author also presents social and political background of his work that had had an immediate effect upon Kafi’s writings.
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This article presents the most important guidelines in understanding political views of Hasan Kafi Pruščak in “Usulu’l-Hikem fi Nizami’l-Alem” (Principles of Wisdom for the Order of the World) written in year 1595, during his engagement as qadi in Prusac. In the first chapter of the work, essential political terminology: power, government, authority, legitimacy and sovereignty are presented as are defined in political studies today. The second chapter focuses on justice and general good as a foundation of politics as envisaged by Kafi. Further we see how Kafi is stressing upon the importance of delegating political responsibilities, mandates and positions to capable, worthy, suitable educated and competent people. Thirdly we present Kafi’s view of the significance and the role of organization of army, morale of soldiers, modern armament, the ruler’s engagement in terms of the readiness and the discipline especially during warfare, in politics. In the third chapter we dealt with Kafi’s political theory in historical context of the Ottoman legislative, political and state order. In the fourth chapter we presented some significant references to West European interest in Kafi’s work. In fifth chapter we pointed out the significance of Kafi’s work and thought to contemporary Bosnian context. In the conclusion it is stressed that Kafi’s political thought, basing the power, government, authority, legitimacy and sovereignty upon Islamic sources and Islamic ethical principles, is concentrated on justice and good governance whose peek is realized in peace.
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The article presents a lecture delivered at the conference on the occasion of “400 years of the legacy of Hasan Kafi Pruščak (1615.-2015.)” in Gazi Husrev-bey’s library in Sarajevo and in methodological sense it is of a comparative character. In the introduction part of the text we bring some general comparative biographical data of Hasan Kafi Pruščak, Bosnian author and a thinker of late Ottoman period and Niccolo Machiavelli, representative of early Renaissance political turmoil in Europe. The main part of the article deals with the second chapter of Kafi’s most renowned work Principles of Wisdom for the Order of the World about – “counseling, istihara, thinking and contemplation” and chapters “of the Princes ministers” or “how far reaching is the effect of fortune within a domain of human and how we can resist it” from Niccolo Machiavelli’s Prince. The intention was to point out, on the bases of these examples, without any further pretentions, to the individual style and historical and geographical background in contemplating political and social motivations and causes, that were to bring about different, or opposing historical processes and contemporary political conclusions. The article suggests that the attention has to be drawn to the significance of political consultations with learned and aware young people in order to develop a politically and socially responsible vision.
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The author focuses on demonstrating the issues: how grasping the world mentally by a human being is refl ected in structures of morphological derivatives used in a given statement, what their function in linguistic communication is. The overview of derivatives with the segment bio- (bio-) and eko- (eco-) from the perspective of a linguistic usage provides information about linguistic methods in which the cognising mind captures the reality (situation) which has not been named before, as it has been non-existent, not identifi ed in terms of cognition (e.g. bioatak (a bioattack) ‘a terrorist attack with the use of biological warfare’), and also (less frequently) – one which has been known, yet is interpreted in a new manner, e.g. biopiractwo (biopiracy) ‘a practice in which groups appropriate the knowledge of the countries of the Third World regarding medicinal and cultivated plants’. After looking closely at the contextual establishment of the morphological structures, the author indicates contextually specified semantic profiles characteristic of this group of composites. In further parts of the discussion, she presents how the tension between the sender and the recipient is shaped in a linguistic usage and briefl y characterises functions of derivatives with bio- and eko- in selected types of media message.
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In this article, that represents a remarkable contribution to the history of translation of the works of Hasan Kafi Pruščak, onthe bases of relevant and archival sources, the author presents life and work of Imre Karácson (1863–1911), chronologically the second translator of the Usul al-hikam. Karácson, historian, Orientalist, Doctor of Divinity, lived in Istanbul from the year 1907 to 1911 where he worked as researcher and translator of documents from archives of Istanbul relevant to Hungarian historiography. During this time, in December 1907, he “discovered” the manuscript of Kafi’s Usul al-hikam in the Beyazid mosque’s library. His translation of this work to Hungarian language was published in 1909, as a special edition by Szent István Társulat (Saint Stephen Society). The article reveals unfamiliar or little-known aspects of Karácson’s work in Istanbul, with a special focus on the background of his translation of Hasan Elkafi through the analysis of the available archival records.
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This paper is dedicated to statements expressing complaint, which are published on Twitter, a microblogging website. The research material covers interaction between customers and service providers of telecommunication companies. The aim of the analysis is to determine the impact of the communication channel on the structure and content of the expressed complaints and to examine linguistic properties of complaints. The research serves also the purpose of identifying intentions of the users expressing their complaints and the degree of effectiveness of the complaints expressed on the social networking website. Taking up the analysis of the abovementioned problem is caused by increased frequency of using Twitter by enterprises and customers. The analysis enabled identifi cation of the most common components of the statements expressing complaint and the most popular linguistic devices aimed at expressing dissatisfaction.
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This paper contains a discussion of contemporary sermons by Rev. Kacper Radzki and Rev. Eugeniusz Burzyk, which – against other representative pieces of the genre – stand out for their micro-text form and composition based on the triptych convention, and hence the name used in the study – triptych microsermons. When describing the identified variant of the sermon, the author uses methods of linguistic genology. Texts representing the variant, falling into the stream of seeking a new model of sermon, break with the genre model and take up polemics with the genre tradition. The object of this study is reorganisation of the genre, which serves making it more up-to-date, strategies leading to that, and establishment of a separate genre variant. This study presents micro-sermons against contextual considerations: cultural and communication transformations determined by the development of digital technologies and crisis of sermon as the most commonly criticised genre these days. Research shows that the discussed variant is underlain by reorganisation of the structural layer, selection of the micro-text form and the convention of triptych, the origin of which is sacral, as a composition pattern. The two categories condition organisation of other aspect of the text. What is also significant for shaping new sermons is the strategy of genre and discourse hybridisation, which is becoming another carrier of meaning. The multifaceted nature of hybridisation results in the formation of an anti-genre, which is represented by one group of the analysed micro-sermons.
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Hasan Kjafi Pruščak nesumnjivo je jedna od najbrilijantnijihfigura intelektualne Bosne XVI. vijeka. Mi s osjećajem ponosa ispisujemo njegovo ime i ovim kratkim osvrtom na njega, želimo da novo svratimo pozornost našega svijeta, da ponovo osvježimo uspomenu na ovog neumrlog našeg mislioca. Za Kjafiju znade svaki posjetilac Ajvatovice, jer je svaki tom prilikom svratio na njegov grob i pomolio se za dušu njegovu. Ali, pomolio se, većinom, kao nad grobom svakog drugog dobrog i pobožnog čovjeka, nesvjesno i ne shvaćajujući svu veličinu i svu slavu koja je vezivana uz njegovo ime.
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Both the practice of language communication and media research prove that the Internet is becoming the most signifi cant means of communicating information and one of the most important sources of knowledge. This applies also to the knowledge of language and culture of language, which is generally, including in the view of researchers, considered unsatisfactory. This state of affairs encourages an overview of Internet resources aimed at answering the question what can be learnt from them about culture of language and its central concepts: the standard and the error. The results of the research are not optimistic. The online materials positioned among the top three contain numerous both substantive and linguistic errors (which is pointed to by Internet users themselves); mental chaos and ineptness in formulating judgments is noticeable there. Their authors have no control over the text, which is often inconsistent and does not meet the requirements of logic; there are no references to the literature used and therefore some of the discussed texts can be considered plagiarisms.
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U ime Boga Dobročinitelja Milostivog! Hvala Bogu, Koji nas je uputio znanju i vjerovanju, a spriječio nas od bezvjerstva i griješenja! Božiji blagoslov nek je Njegovu časnom poslaniku i uglednom miljeniku Muhammedu, koji je poslat s najboljom vjerom; njegovom rodu, koji su preteče u dobru i njegovim drugovima, koji su ga pokorno slijedili!
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Najznačajnija ličnost u naučno- književnom i intelektualnom životu bosanskih muslimana posljednjih decenija XVI i početkom XVII stoljeća bio je Hasan Kāfī Pruščak. Tako istaknuto mjesto u kulturnoj povijesti Bosne svoga vremena stekao je svojim plodnim i mnogostrukim naučno-književnim i kulturno- -prosvjetnim radom, kao i svojim zadužbinama od kojih neke postoje i danas.
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