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Cultural society
Gajret
was a cultural society established in 1903 that promoted
Serb
identity among the Slavic Muslims of
Austria-Hungary
(today's
Bosnia and Herzegovina
).
The organization was pro-
Serb
.
History
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After the 1914
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
leadership of the association was interned in
Arad
.
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The organization viewed that the
South-Slavic Muslims were Serbs
lacking ethnic consciousness.
The view that South-Slavic Muslims were Serbs is probably the oldest of three ethnic theories among the
Bosnian Muslims
themselves.
After the
Austro-Hungarian occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
, the Bosnian Muslims, feeling threatened by
Catholic
Habsburg
rule, established several organizations.
These included, apart from Gajret, the
Muslim National Organization
(1906) and the
United Muslim Organization
(1911).
In 1912, after the death of
Osman điki?
, the editing of Gajret was entrusted to
Avdo Sumbul
.
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Gajret's main rival was the pro-Croat Muslim organization
Narodna Uzdanica
,
established in 1924.
In interwar
Yugoslavia
, members experienced persecution at the hands of non-Serbs due to their political inclinations.
In this period association run a number of student dormitories in
Mostar
, Sarajevo,
Belgrade
and
Novi Pazar
.
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During World War II, the association was dismantled by the
Independent State of Croatia
.
Some members, non-Communists, joined or collaborated with the
Yugoslav Partisans
(such as M. Sud?uka, Z. ?arac, H. Brki?, H. ?emerli?, and M. Zaimovi?
).
Ismet Popovac
and
Fehim Musakadi?
joined the
Chetniks
.
In 1945, a new Muslim organization,
Preporod
, was founded in order to replace the pro-Serb Gajret and pro-Croat Narodna Uzdanica.
The former organizations voted for and were merged into Preporod.
In 1996 it was reestablished as a
Bosniak
cultural association.
Notable members
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See also
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References
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Sources
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- Allworth, Edward (1994).
Muslim Communities Reemerge: Historical Perspectives on Nationality, Politics, and Opposition in the Former Soviet Union and Yugoslavia
. Duke University Press.
ISBN
0-8223-1490-8
.
- Greble, Emily (2011).
Sarajevo 1941?1945: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Hitler's Europe
. Cornell University Press. pp.
15
, 34?35, 39, 121, 124, 163, 235, 237.
ISBN
978-0-8014-6121-7
.
- Hoare, Marko Attila (2007).
The History of Bosnia: From the Middle Ages to the Present Day
. Saqi. pp. 131?133.
ISBN
978-0-86356-953-1
.
- Hoare, Marko Attila (2013).
The Bosnian Muslims in the Second World War
. Oxford University Press. pp. 41, 44, 68, 142, 126?7, 144?5, 171, 176, 356.
ISBN
978-0-19-936531-9
.