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Mustafa Hilmi
ef.
Had?iomerovi?
(born 1816 in
Kulen Vakuf
, near
Biha?
; died 10 February 1895) was the first Mufti of
Sarajevo
appointed
reis-ul-ulema
in 1882 by the
Austrian
authorities.
Career
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Had?iomerovi? received his basic religious and general education in his birth town. He later studied at the high school in
Prijedor
and then went to the Gazi Husrev-beg Medresa in Sarajevo. There he studied before the famous schoolmaster Mehmed efendija Ku?uk and attended lectures in
Sarajevo
of Mufti Muhamed ?akir efendije Muidovi? and Muhamed Telalagi?.
In 1837 Had?iomerovi? went to
Istanbul
to study at a Madrasah there for 15 years. He then returned to
Bosnia
to work in
Bosanski Novi
and was then posted to the Kur?umli madrasah in
Sarajevo
as a schoolteacher. A year later he was appointed Imam at the Arebi-Atik mosque.
In 1856 Mustafa Hilmi Had?iomerovi? was appointed
Mufti
of
Sarajevo
but he continued his teaching duties, giving lectures until 1888. Following the
Habsburg
occupation of
Bosnia
in 1878, Had?iomerovi? made public appeals for peace and calm. On 17 October 1882 the
Austrias
appointed him
Reis-l-ulema
in order to gradually separate
Bosnia
from
Turkish
authority. He issued a number of
Fatwa
encouraging
Bosnian
Muslims to stay (over 100,000 emigrated to
Turkey
over the 1880s
[1]
) and collaborate, and also to serve in the
Bosnian Herzegovinian Infantry
.
[2]
Exhausted from many years of work, Mustafa Hilmi Had?iomerovi? resigned the position of reis-ul-ulema in 1893 and died two years later on 10 February 1895.
References
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- ^
Noel Malcolm,
Bosnia: A Short History
, 1994 , page.139.
- ^
Fikret Kar?i?,
The Bosniaks and the Challenges of Modernity: Late Ottoman and Hapsburg Times
(1995), page.120.
Literature
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- Noel Malcolm,
Bosnia: A Short History
, 1994
- Fikret Kar?i?,
The Bosniaks and the Challenges of Modernity: Late Ottoman and Hapsburg Times
(1995)