Islamic community in Serbia
The Islamic Community in Serbia ( Serbian - Cyrillic Исламска заједница у Србији , Islamska zajednica u Srbiji - IzuS) with its headquarters in Novi Pazar is one of the two organizations of the Muslim believers in Serbia . The other is the Islamic Community of Serbia (IZS). It was founded in 2007 in Novi Pazar.
construction
The Islamic Community in Serbia is part of the Rijaset of the Islamic Community in Bosnia and Herzegovina ( Rijaseta Islamske zajednice u Bosni i Hercegovini ) and is divided into four muftiates: Sandžak (responsible for the Sandžak region , based in Novi Pazar ), Preševo (responsible for the southern Serbian communities Preševo , Bujanovac and Medveđa , seat in Preševo), Novi Sad (responsible for the north Serbian autonomous province Vojvodina , seat in Novi Sad ) and Belgrade for central Serbia (seat in Belgrade ). At the head of the Islamic Community in Serbia is Mevlud Dudić , previously Grand Mufti Muamer Zukorlić , who is also the Mufti of Sandžak.
history
When, according to the Law on Churches and Religious Communities of 2006, a body was to be established at national level for each of the seven recognized religions in Serbia, the Islamic Community in Serbia (Islamska zajednica u Srbiji) was initially registered on July 30, 2007 . A few months later, however, the rival Islamic Community of Serbia (Islamska zajednica Srbije) was formed . This was mainly based on personal and political conflicts. The leadership of the IZS rejects the leadership of the IzuS. The latter was supported by the Bosniak nationalist politician Sulejman Ugljanin , leader of the Party of Democratic Action (SDA) of Sandžak.
A dividing question is the relationship with the Islamic community of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The IzuS wishes a close connection between the Islamic community in Sandžak, where most Muslims identify as Bosniaks , to Sarajevo and that in Preševo, where most Muslims are ethnic Albanians , to Kosovo , while the IZS keeps these communities under purely Serbian control want. Both associations deny the legitimacy and legality of the other and have even fought violent clashes.
The Serbian Ministry of Religion recognizes both communities, but only the IzuS is recognized as a partner by the neighboring Islamic communities in Bosnia and Herzegovina , Montenegro , Kosovo and North Macedonia . It controls a majority of the mosques and Islamic organizations in the country, is more active and better organized than its rival.
At the head of the Islamic Community in Serbia is the executive body of the Meschihat ( Mešihat , "Council"), which is headed by the Chief Mufti . The association operates the Faculty for Islamic Studies and the Medrese "Gazi Isa-beg" in Novi Pazar, the monthly newspaper Glas Islama ("Voice of Islam"), the Islamic publisher El Kelimeh , an "International Huminitarian Organization", a media center, a Halāl certification agency , library and two kindergartens. A women's and a youth association as well as an association of ulema (religious scholars) are also assigned to the IzuS .
See also
literature
- Ahmet Alibašić : Serbia. In: Yearbook of the Muslims in Europe. Volume 4, Brill, Leiden 2012, pp. 457-466. ( bosanskialim.com ; PDF; 476 kB)
- Aleksander Zdravkovski: Islam and Politics in the Serbian Sandžak. Institutionalization and Feuds. In Sabrina Ramet: Religion and Politics in Post-Socialist Central and Southeastern Europe Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke (Hampshire) / New York 2014, pp. 212–239.