Muamer Zukorlić

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Muamer Zukorlić

Muamer Zukorlić ( Serbian - Cyrillic Муамер Зукорлић ; born February 15, 1970 in Orlje , Tutin , SR Serbia , SFR Yugoslavia ) is the Mufti of the Sanjak , who was the Grand Mufti at the head of the Islamic Community in Serbia, founded in 2007 ("Islamska Srbajednica. U “) With headquarters in Novi Pazar , which is one of two organizations of Muslim believers in Serbia .

Life

He completed his training at the Gazi-Husrev-Beg - Medrese in Sarajevo . He graduated from the Sharia Department of the Islamic Faculty in Constantine , Algeria . Further studies took him to Lebanon .

In 1994, when he was only 23 years old, Zukorlić was appointed Mufti of Novi Pazar. Political reasons are presumed behind the selection. At the time, Zukorlić was a member of the Bosniak Nationalist Party of Democratic Action (SDA), but did not enjoy the support of the chairman of the SDA in Sandžak, Sulejman Ugljanin , who, according to Zukorlić, would have preferred Adem Zilkić to be installed as Mufti. The conflict between the two sides continues to this day: Since 2007 there have been two nationwide Muslim bodies in Serbia: the Islamska zajednica u Srbiji (IzuS) under the leadership of Zukorlić, based in Novi Pazar, and the Islamska zajednica Srbije (IZS; “ Islamic Community Serbia ”) based in Belgrade, headed by Zilkić. Whether Zukorlić was properly elected Mufti by the responsible Meschihat (council) or simply installed by the then reis-ul-ulema of Sarajevo, Mustafa Cerić , is a matter of dispute between the two factions. Allegedly, with the appointment of Zukorlić, who stands for close ties to the Islamic community of Bosnia, Cerić wanted to weaken the influence of the Mufti of Belgrade, Hamdija Jusufspahić , who advocates the independence of Serbian Muslims from them.

Zukorlić helped found the International University in Novi Pazar and is its rector and the first dean of the Islamic Faculty. Furthermore, he was the first editor-in-chief of the Islamic monthly newspaper Glas Islama ("Voice of Islam"), one of the founders of the El Kelimeh publishing house . He is also a member of the Rijaset (executive body) of the Islamic community in Bosnia and Herzegovina (which the IzuS-organized Islamic community in Sandžak, unlike its IZS branch, recognizes as a parent).

In 2004, on behalf of his religious community, Zukorlić campaigned in vain against the introduction of a day of remembrance for Sava of Serbia at the state schools there. In 2006, Zukorlić was one of the signatories of an open letter from Islamic scholars to Pope Benedict XVI. after his Regensburg speech . He was one of the 138 signatories of the open letter a common word between us and you ( english A Common Word Between Us and You ), the personalities of Islam to "leaders of Christian churches everywhere" (Engl. "Leaders of Christian Churches, everywhere ..." ) (October 13, 2007).

Zukorlić ran for the presidential election in Serbia in 2012 . This was seen as a sign of stronger and better representation of the Serbian Bosniaks. The councils (Meschihat) of the Islamic communities in Sandžak, Croatia and Slovenia are assigned to the Islamic community in Bosnia-Herzegovina and thus to the ethnic group of Bosniaks . When Zukorlić, as a presidential candidate in Serbia, explicitly spoke out against separation efforts in Sandžak, the tabloid Blic published a caricature showing him in the guise of a Serbian Orthodox priest. The ensuing uproar forced the newspaper to apologize. Zukorlić's political engagement remained controversial, also within the Islamic community.

literature

  • Jacek Duda: Islamic community in Serbia - the Sandžak case ( Online ) (PDF file - orient.uw.edu.pl)
  • Ahmet Alibašić : Serbia , in: Yearbook of the Muslims in Europe, Vol. 4, Brill 2012 ( Online (PDF; 476 kB) - bosanskialim.com)

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References and footnotes

  1. ↑ a b ihh.org.tr ( Memento of the original from June 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (P. 301: Zukorlic, Muamer - Grand Mufti of Islamic Community in Serbia; PDF; 3.1 MB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ihh.org.tr
  2. ↑ 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, p. 215.
  3. ↑ Ahmet Alibašić: Serbia ( memento of the original from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Yearbook of the Muslims in Europe. Volume 4, Brill, Leiden 2012, p. 461. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bosanskialim.com
  4. ↑ Sava, Ivan from Rila and Kliment from Ohrid. Saints in the national service of Serbia, Bulgaria and Macedonia, by Stefan Rohdewald, p. 200 in The Renaissance of the National Patron: Cultures of Remembrance in East Central Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries. Century Stefan Samerski , Krista Zach Böhlau Verlag Cologne Weimar, 2007
  5. ↑ islam.de Open letter to His Holiness Pope XVI. (PDF; 224 kB)
  6. ↑ acommonword.com: A common word between us and you (summarized short form) (PDF; 186 kB)
  7. ↑ Yearbook of Muslims in Europe, Volume 3, ed. by Jørgen S. Nielsen, Samim Akgönül, Ahmet Alibašić, Hugh Goddard and Brigitte Maréchal, BRILL, October 28, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Zukorlić, Muamer
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Muammar Effendi Zukorlic
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Serbian Mufti of Sandžak; Grand Mufti of the Islamic Community in Serbia
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Orlje , Tutin , Socialist Republic of Serbia Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia