🇬🇧 A Sarajevo Mushaf Identified in the British Library

Following contacts established at the International Symposium on Manunoscripts in Istanbul, experts from the Gazi Husrev-beg Library in Sarajevo helped the British Library identify the scribe and former owner of a Qur’anic manunoscript (mushaf).

The request came from Michael Erdman, Head of the Middle Eastern and Central Asian Collections at the British Library in London, who shared digital copies of several pages of the mushaf, including the colophon and an ownership note, seeking expert identification.

Sarajevo librarians determined that the mushaf was copied in 1270 AH (mid-19th century) in Sarajevo, in the Topal Ejnehan neighborhood (today the congregation of the Lubine Mosque), by Jusuf Prozorac, son of Sulejman (Yusuf ibn Sulayman Prozorli).

The neighborhood, where a mosque was built by Hajj Topal Ejnehan, founder of Vratnik, is still home to the Prozorac family, who are very likely descendants of the same scribe.

🇦🇱 Albanian volunteer 🇧🇦

An Albanian in the 1st Baon, 28th Regiment (1/28) of the 13th Waffen-SS Division "Handschar," photographed in the spring of 1944. Besides his camouflaged parka, Karabiner, Stielhandgranate, and an array of German field equipment, he's wearing a specially made "Albanerfez," a variation of the Fez given only to Albanians. It should be noted that once the men from the 28th Regiment left the Handschar Division in April 1944 to join the newly formed SS Skanderbeg Division, the Albanerfez fell out of use.

(members of the Skanderbeg Division did not wear the Albanerfez whatsoever; the Albanian government at the time decided to stop practicing leftovers from the times of Islamic governance)

🇦🇱 متطوّع ألباني 🇧🇦

ألباني في الكتيبة الأولى، الفوج الثامن والعشرين (1/28) من الفرقة الثالثة عشرة فافن-إس إس «هاندشار»، صُوِّر في ربيع عام 1944. إلى جانب سترته المموّهة، وبندقية كارابينر، والقنبلة اليدوية شتيلهاندغراناته، ومجموعة من المعدات الميدانية الألمانية، كان يرتدي «ألبانرفيز» مصنوعًا خصيصًا، وهو نوع من الطربوش أُعطي حصريًا للألبان. ويُذكر أنه عندما غادر رجال الفوج الثامن والعشرين فرقة هاندشار في أبريل 1944 للانضمام إلى فرقة إس إس سكندربِغ التي شُكِّلت حديثًا، خرج الألبانرفيز من الاستعمال.

(لم يرتدِ أفراد فرقة سكندربِغ الألبانرفيز مطلقًا؛ إذ قررت الحكومة الألبانية آنذاك التوقف عن ممارسة الموروثات المتبقية من فترات الحكم الإسلامي).

"Et tu, brute?"

"An elderly Bosnian Muslim holding a photo of his father and a certificate showing that he rescued Jews from extermination by the Germans during World War II in 1941. At that time, Bosnian Muslims hid thousands of Jews in their homes and gave them Muslim identities so they would not be arrested by German soldiers. Later, the occupying entity repaid that favor to the Muslims of Bosnia by supporting the Serbs with weapons during the war of extermination against Bosnian Muslims in 1991."

"عجوز بوسني مسلم يحمل صورة والده وشهادة تظهر بأنه قام بإنقاذ اليهود من الإبادة على يد الألمان خلال الحرب العالمية الثانية عام 1941، حيث قام المسلمين البوسنة آنذاك بإخفاء آلاف اليهود في منازلهم واعطائهم هويات لمسلمين حتى لا يتم اعتقالهم على يد الجنود الالمان وبعدها رد الكيان المغتصب ذلك الجميل لمسلمي البوسنة بدعم الصرب بالسلاح خلال حرب إبادة مسلمي البوسنة عام 1991"

🇧🇦 Selective funding by the Government in Mostar

Over the past three years, the FBiH Government allocated 2.76 million KM for projects in Mostar only in areas where the Croat Democratic Union (HDZ) wins its mandates: West, Southwest, and South.
The other areas with a Bosniak majority North, Old Town, and Southeast received zero funding.

🇧🇦 التمويل الانتقائي من قبل حكومة موستار

على مدى السنوات الثلاث الماضية، خصّصت حكومة اتحاد البوسنة والهرسك (FBiH) مبلغ 2.76 مليون مارك قابل للتحويل (KM) لمشاريع في موستار، ولكن فقط في المناطق التي يفوز فيها الاتحاد الديمقراطي الكرواتي (HDZ) بمقاعده: الغرب، والجنوب الغربي، والجنوب.
أما المناطق الأخرى ذات الأغلبية البوشناقية — الشمال، والمدينة القديمة، والجنوب الشرقي — فلم تتلقَّ أي تمويل.

Why you four putting hearts, this shit ain't good news

Here is some more of my amature art 😁

🇧🇦🤝🇹🇷 In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of the late Alija Izetbegović, the first president of independent Bosnia and Herzegovina, the "Alija at 100: Life, Thought, Struggle Exhibition" was opened in Istanbul by the İlim Yayma Foundation.

Bilal Erdoğan, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the İlim Yayma Foundation, Alija's granddaughter and Secretary-General of the Alija Izetbegović Foundation Esma Zlatar, and former Bosniak Member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina Sefik Dzaferovic attended the opening ceremony at the Atatürk Cultural Center.

When I look at this, it makes me think that the Turks honor and love our president far more than we do in our own country.

Glimpse of the beauties Herzegovina has to offer.
لمحة عن جماليات هيرتسيغوفينا التي تزخر بها.

Wholesome post today ❤️

🇪🇺 Brussels Pressures Bosnia Again

Once again, Brussels is issuing warnings to Bosnia and Herzegovina, demanding alignment with EU visa policy. According to the European Commission’s latest report, BiH is being criticized for maintaining visa-free regimes with countries like Turkey, Russia, China, Azerbaijan, Qatar, Kuwait, and for seasonal visa-free travel with Saudi Arabia.

Bosnia and Herzegovina is being told to cut ties with key global partners that bring tourists, investments, students, and political balance just to satisfy EU bureaucratic checklists.

Yes, Sarajevo already abolished visa-free travel with Bahrain and Oman to comply with EU demands. Yet Brussels says this is still “not enough.” Now, 6+1 remaining arrangements are labeled “misaligned,” as if Bosnia has no right to conduct its own foreign policy.