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Abstract
This article aims to examine the
historical reality of Muslims in Macedonia and their Islamic educational
institutions in this region where there is a Muslim majority with special
emphasis on the Albanians and Turks. The article will try to shed light on the
experiences of Albanian and Turkish Muslims during the post-Ottoman and
interwar periods and on their relations with the state. Debates between the
traditionalist and reformist sections in the Muslim community will also be
dealt with.
After providing the basic facts about
historical processes Muslim communities went through in Macedonia (also known
as Južna Srbija with Kosovo) – the article shows that some Muslim leaders in
the region tried to establish educational institutions to modernize the Muslims
community and Islam and to educate them to conform to the wishes of the
government in Belgrade. For example we see in this period that the policy of
the Velika Medresa of King Alexander as a state school (1921) was to introduce
some radical reforms in educational system for Muslims in this region. It was
established in Skopje and the Serbian language was adopted for teaching.
Despite the state support its reformist ideas were not received widely. On the
other hand we see in contrast that some of the religious scholars (the ulema)
from traditional Turkish medressah’s in Fatih (Istanbul) proposed a classical
Ottoman education of Islam in the new period. In order to reject reformist
education Ataullah Kurtiş founded the Meddah Medresa as a continuation of traditional
Islamic education of the Ottoman medressahs (1925-1926). These two cases
indicate that different and contrasting models were proposed.
This article also shows that there is a third trend represented by the Isa Beg Medressah (1932) as opposed to both reformist and traditional ones. The Isa Beg Medressah proposes an approach bridging the traditionalist and reformist approaches to educational system. In order to show the intellectual currents and dynamism, this article will explore views of some Islamic leaders in education from both reformist and traditionalist camps such as Hasan Rebac, Vladimir Ćorović, Ahmed Mehmedbašić, Tajjib Okić, Hamid Begović, Ataullah Kurtiş, Abdulfettah Rauf, Kemal Aruçi and Bekir Sadak. It is hoped that findings of this article will shed light on the interwar period in this region of the Balkans by analyzing historical processes, views of leading scholars and intellectual debates during the interwar period.
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Details
Primary Language
Turkish
Subjects
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Journal Section
Research Article
Authors
Muhammet Aruçi
This is me
Macedonia
Publication Date
December 30, 2011
Submission Date
May 14, 2017
Acceptance Date
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Published in Issue
Year 2011 Volume: 2 Number: 2