From Bosnia to the Nile: Traces of a Hidden Heritage 🇧🇦

The descendants of Bosnians live in central Africa today, in tribes in southern Egypt and northern Sudan. Does this sound incredible?

However, it is true. Namely, Qasr Ibrim is an archaeological site which the Ottomans occupied in the 16th century. To defend the territory, hundreds of Bosnian soldiers were left to protect the territory. The descendants of these soldiers live in this area even today, at the localities of Derr and Ibrim, stated one of the Reddit, Dan.ba reported.

The Bosnian soldiers and their descendants married the tribeswomen of Gharbye and Djowabere tribes. What is interesting, the younger generations forgot the Bosnian language; however, several features of the northern climate remained present. In the first place it refers to the light brown skin color, while the Nubians are black.

”Some of the women who followed our friends to the ships had a strange skin color, light white eyes and curly red hair. There are numerous families in this area who claim that they are the descendants of Bosnian soldiers who were stationed in Nubia during the conquests of Sultan Selim in 1517. They are extremely proud of their roots, and consider themselves beautiful.” – This is an excerpt from the book ”Back through Nubia” written by Amelie Ann Blandford Edwards back in 1891.

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White Armband Day: Remembering the Victims of Prijedor ☪

Today is the International White Armband Day, commemorating the memory of more than 3,000 people who were killed in the municipality of Prijedor between 1992 and 1995.

On May 31, 1992, the Serbian authorities in Prijedor issued an order via local radio instructing non-Serb residents to place white flags or sheets on their houses and to wear white armbands on their arms when leaving their homes.

"Serb citizens, join your army and police in the pursuit of these extremists. Other citizens — Muslims and Croats — must hang white flags on their homes and apartments and wear white armbands on their arms, or else they will suffer severe consequences," the order stated.

According to official information from victims’ associations, 3,176 civilians were killed in Prijedor, while 31,000 people were detained in camps around the area.

The Research and Documentation Center in Sarajevo reports that between 1991 and 1995, a total of 5,209 citizens from Prijedor were killed or went missing in direct military actions — among them 4,093 Bosniaks, 898 Serbs, and 182 Croats. Over 400 mass graves have been discovered, including the Tomašica grave — the largest mass grave in the Balkans — which was uncovered in 2013.

Ovako je sultan Mehmed osvojio ne samo Istambul,već i srca svojih stanovnika,29.Svibanj 1453 godine.

DA LI STE ČULI ZA HASANA BOŠNJAKA KOJI JE ZAJEDNO SA OMEROM MUHTAROM PREDVODIO LIBIJSKI OTPOR ?

Iako gotovo u potpunosti nepoznat među Bošnjacima, on je i dan-danas historijski simbol libijskog naroda, te je i dalje veoma cijenjen – kako on, tako i njegovi potomci.

Hasan Bošnjak rođen je 1865. godine, a tačno mjesto njegovog rođenja nije poznato. U svojoj ranoj mladosti upisuje Vojnu akademiju u Istanbulu, tadašnjem Osmanlijskom Hilafetu, koju je završio s oficirskim činom. Nakon toga biva raspoređen u sklopu osmanskih snaga na libijskom tlu, a nakon povlačenja Osmanlijskih snaga iz Libije, šejh Hasan Bošnjak – kako su ga oslovljavali Libijci zbog njegovog islamskog znanja i pobožnosti – ostaje sa skupinom osmanskih oficira i vojnika, među kojima je bilo mnogo Bošnjaka. Nastavlja voditi džihad protiv nadolazeće italijanske okupacije i postaje jedan od ključnih vođa libijskog džihada.

Hasan Bošnjak je predvodio mnoge bitke i učestvovao u brojnim operacijama kao jedan od najvećih mudžahidskih komandira, rame uz rame s drugim istaknutim vođama mudžahida, uključujući i dobro poznatog Omera Muhtara, sve do 1922. godine kada su ga italijanski okupatori zarobili i prognali u Egipat. Iz Egipta je šejh Hasan nastavio podržavati libijski otpor logistikom i ljudstvom.

Kao odgovor na zarobljavanje Hasana Bošnjaka, 1923. godine Omer Muhtar je izveo operaciju "Bi’r Gabi" protiv italijanske vojske, nanijevši joj velike gubitke. Šejh Hasan Bošnjak, rahimehullah, preselio je 1934. godine u Aleksandriji, gdje je i ukopan. Njegovi potomci danas žive u Egiptu, dok potomci njegovih bošnjačkih saboraca žive u Libiji, gdje se i danas ponosno pripisuju svom bošnjačkom porijeklu i identitetu, te su veoma cijenjeni među libijskim narodom – ponajviše zbog zasluga Hasana Bošnjaka.

Ovaj i mnogi drugi svijetli primjeri iz davne i skorašnje historije treba da podsjećaju Bošnjake na njihov džihadski identitet kojim su se nekada isticali, na njihovu želju i sposobnost da se žrtvuju za Allahovu vjeru, te na njihov veliki doprinos u borbi širom frontova islamskog ummeta kroz različite historijske epohe – doprinos koji je bio značajan i blistav uprkos malobrojnosti Bošnjaka u odnosu na druge muslimanske narode.

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"Ja Mustafa" – Tarik Ibišević and the choir of the Elči Ibrahim Pasha Madrasa 🇧🇦☪

"Even if they can kill you,
They won't be able to kill your books!
Ya Mustafa, early star of the long night!
 
Sarajevo is dreading silently - what a dark day!
They've taken our Mustafa to a Zindan.
Digging the Mazar, wiping his freezing forehead,
What will happen with our beloved Islam!?

Once again, he gazed upon his white city,
With his clear eye, embracing all the Minarets.
The Kafirs have shot to the chest,
The ruddy Sabah of Sarajevo had silenced

The night had passed, the foes have failed,
They perished - to smaller than when they were born.
Everybody is asking, where is the Mazar of Mustafa,
An erudite Shahid is watching over Sarajevo."

Azerbaijan technology paid me handsomely to post this video 🇧🇦🇦🇿

From now on, anyone who is critical of the supreme, democratically elected leader, President Aliyev, will be muted

Oh Užice, Little Constantinople: A Bosniak Farewell in Flames 🕊

While the City Disappeared in Flames: The Song "Oh Užice, Little Constantinople" Was Sung by Bosniak Girls as They Fell to the Ground and Kissed It One Last Time

The Muslims of the Užice villages relocated to Bosnia as early as 1834, while the final exodus from the city occurred on September 28, 1862. The folk lyrical song Oj, Užice, mali Carigrade ("Oh Užice, Little Constantinople") was created during the forced expulsion of Muslims from Užice. According to tradition, it was composed by Bosniak girls at Užice's natural gate – Terazije, near Bešlagić’s inn – as they fell to the ground and kissed it for the last time, while the city disappeared in flames.

Given the year it was documented (Karadžić, 1841), it is assumed that the song may have originated during the Serbian capture of Užice in the First Serbian Uprising (1805), or during one of the expulsions in the 1830s. The Muslims of the Užice villages had moved to Bosnia by 1834, and the final departure from the city took place on September 28, 1862. Užice was completely burned at that time. An Užice baker and innkeeper, Miladin T. Radović, left a manunoscript describing it:

> "The fire, it seemed, reached into the sky. Not even the smallest needle could be found in the entire area around Užice."



This folk song has survived to the present day in the following (sung) version:

> Oh, Užice, little Constantinople / While you were, how fine you were. / One could not pass through you / From hyacinths and carnations / From young men and girls. / From the scent of roses and basil, / From the sighs of beautiful girls.



The song was recorded from the singing of well-known pre-WWII singer Sulejman Džakić (1904–1978) by composer, ethnomusicologist, and Radio Belgrade editor Đorđe Karaklajić. Džakić was a vocal soloist on Radio Belgrade and a role model for many later sevdalinka performers. His own family had been expelled from Užice and resettled in Bosanski Šamac, and he learned the song from his grandfather.

Interestingly, the song was not recorded by sevdalinka interpreters, but almost exclusively by performers of Serbian folk music. Thus, in most discographies, it has been listed as a Serbian folk song. This might be due to the fact that it arose from a tragic context, and as such, it did not attract the interest of vocal sevdalinka interpreters. With the establishment of the Institute of Sevdah – the Omer Pobrić Foundation – the song was revived by sevdalinka singer Fadil Gračić.

Second Largest City in Serbia

In its time, Užice was the second-largest city in Serbia, right after Belgrade. It was worthy even of the imperial city of Constantinople, as it is referred to in the song: its neighborhoods, houses, inns, watermills, madrasas, Quran and hadith schools all testified to its economic and industrial rise and to its status as a major educational and cultural center of the time.

Evliya Çelebi, in his Travelogue, described it as follows:

> "Descending exactly two thousand steps southeast and east from that city, along paths carved through rugged cliffs, lies a beautiful and prosperous šeher (city) in a spacious plain, with solidly built houses, both ground-level and multi-story. They are lined one above the other and adorned on both sides of the Đetinja River with vineyards, gardens, and rose bushes.

It has a total of four thousand eight hundred houses, mostly chimneys covered with shingles and tiles, because many of the owners are ziamet and odžak holders (landowners). Among all of them stands out the very imposing saray of zaim Džafer-aga...

Because of the pleasant climate, the inhabitants are so beautiful that their faces glow red like rubies... Their women wear black feredže and not the pink, green, or red čohe (broadcloth). All behave modestly, but do not go to the market or bazaar, as they consider it shameful. All are pious and good women like Rabia al-Adawiyya."

Recorded by Vuk Karadžić

The song Oj, Užice, mali Carigrade was recorded by Vuk Karadžić and published in 1841 in his book Serbian Folk Songs (Women’s Songs) under the noscript “Užice Song” (no. 672). The final two verses cruelly testify to the frequent burning of Užice. Karadžić wrote of it as a city that was burned and looted every ten years:

> Oh, Užice, little Constantinople! / While you were, how fine you were! / One could not pass through you / From corners and shop counters, / From stores and merchants, / From young men and girls, / From hyacinths and carnations, / But since they conquered you, / You’ve been smoking like drying plums.

After the Muslim population was expelled, the architecture of šeher Užice gradually changed into a Serbian-type town, and all traces of Islamic culture and civilization disappeared. The families expelled from Užice to Bosnia took with them the keys to the front doors of their homes. Many of them hoped to return, and some families still keep those keys today as a memento of their former home.

By Ancient Bosnia:
"Along its edges whisper the footsteps of janissaries, while the scent of incense from the harem slowly fills the air. The sultanas may have vanished long ago, but their radiance and secrets remain woven into this piece of silver. This is a story of power, faith, and history that shaped the Bosnian valleys, where the aromas of spices, the sounds of dervishes, the call to prayer from minarets, and an empire that lasted for centuries all intertwined. Touch the past and feel the imperial silence in your hands.🇧🇦🇹🇷"

Getting ready for Kurban Bajram ❤️

🇸🇾 Usame Zukorlić Meets Syrian President: “Syria Gives Hope to the Free World”

Usame Zukorlić, Minister without portfolio in the Government of Serbia in charge of reconciliation, regional cooperation, and social stability, paid an official visit to Damascus, where he held a high-level meeting with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa.

🗣 In a statement shared on social media, Zukorlić emphasized the symbolic importance of Syria's perseverance:

“There are few leaders whose life path so strongly symbolizes a people’s struggle for freedom and dignity. Syria today gives hope to the entire Ummah and the free world – precisely because, despite all the trials, it has not collapsed nor descended into a fratricidal war following the fall of dictatorship.”