Research Article

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Volume: 2 Number: 2 December 30, 2011
  • Muhammet Aruçi
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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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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

APA
Aruçi, M. (2011). OSMANLI SONRASI İKİ DÜNYA SAVAŞI ARASINDA MAKEDONYA’DAKİ MÜSLÜMAN TOPLUM VE İSLÂMÎ EĞİTİM KURUMLARI. Balkan Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2(2), 11-38. https://izlik.org/JA85XR79ML
AMA
1.Aruçi M. OSMANLI SONRASI İKİ DÜNYA SAVAŞI ARASINDA MAKEDONYA’DAKİ MÜSLÜMAN TOPLUM VE İSLÂMÎ EĞİTİM KURUMLARI. BAD. 2011;2(2):11-38. https://izlik.org/JA85XR79ML
Chicago
Aruçi, Muhammet. 2011. “OSMANLI SONRASI İKİ DÜNYA SAVAŞI ARASINDA MAKEDONYA’DAKİ MÜSLÜMAN TOPLUM VE İSLÂMÎ EĞİTİM KURUMLARI”. Balkan Araştırmaları Dergisi 2 (2): 11-38. https://izlik.org/JA85XR79ML.
EndNote
Aruçi M (December 1, 2011) OSMANLI SONRASI İKİ DÜNYA SAVAŞI ARASINDA MAKEDONYA’DAKİ MÜSLÜMAN TOPLUM VE İSLÂMÎ EĞİTİM KURUMLARI. Balkan Araştırmaları Dergisi 2 2 11–38.
IEEE
[1]M. Aruçi, “OSMANLI SONRASI İKİ DÜNYA SAVAŞI ARASINDA MAKEDONYA’DAKİ MÜSLÜMAN TOPLUM VE İSLÂMÎ EĞİTİM KURUMLARI”, BAD, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 11–38, Dec. 2011, [Online]. Available: https://izlik.org/JA85XR79ML
ISNAD
Aruçi, Muhammet. “OSMANLI SONRASI İKİ DÜNYA SAVAŞI ARASINDA MAKEDONYA’DAKİ MÜSLÜMAN TOPLUM VE İSLÂMÎ EĞİTİM KURUMLARI”. Balkan Araştırmaları Dergisi 2/2 (December 1, 2011): 11-38. https://izlik.org/JA85XR79ML.
JAMA
1.Aruçi M. OSMANLI SONRASI İKİ DÜNYA SAVAŞI ARASINDA MAKEDONYA’DAKİ MÜSLÜMAN TOPLUM VE İSLÂMÎ EĞİTİM KURUMLARI. BAD. 2011;2:11–38.
MLA
Aruçi, Muhammet. “OSMANLI SONRASI İKİ DÜNYA SAVAŞI ARASINDA MAKEDONYA’DAKİ MÜSLÜMAN TOPLUM VE İSLÂMÎ EĞİTİM KURUMLARI”. Balkan Araştırmaları Dergisi, vol. 2, no. 2, Dec. 2011, pp. 11-38, https://izlik.org/JA85XR79ML.
Vancouver
1.Muhammet Aruçi. OSMANLI SONRASI İKİ DÜNYA SAVAŞI ARASINDA MAKEDONYA’DAKİ MÜSLÜMAN TOPLUM VE İSLÂMÎ EĞİTİM KURUMLARI. BAD [Internet]. 2011 Dec. 1;2(2):11-38. Available from: https://izlik.org/JA85XR79ML