Smailagić Nerkez: Sabrana djela Nerkeza Smailagića – islamski opus

Collected works of Nerkez Smailagić - Islamic opus

Nerkez Smailagić (1927-1985) completed primary and secondary school in his native Banja Luka. He graduated in 1951 from the Faculty of Law in Sarajevo. He studied in France on two occasions - in Nancy (1953) and Paris (1955) - where he studied political theory and contemporary political doctrines. Between 1960 and 1962, he was the director of the National Theater in Banja Luka. He has lived in Zagreb since 1962. He is one of the co-founders of the Faculty of Political Sciences in Zagreb, where he taught the history of political doctrines from 1962 to 1973. Due to his participation in the Croatian Spring, he was excluded from classes. Since 1977, he has been a senior research associate at the Faculty of Islamic Theology (today's Faculty of Islamic Sciences). Nerkez Smailagić was a translator and publisher of numerous works in the field of legal and political doctrines, philosophy, culture, civilization, history and Islamic studies. He translated from French, German, English and Italian.

The classical culture of Islam I

This book is the first attempt in our country to present the classical culture of Islam in a reviewed, comprehensive, comprehensive and documented way. In it, the main ideas, theories, institutions and results that it produced in terms of theology, philosophy and science are collected and presented in a systematic order.

The modern reader, both the one who belongs to the Muslim cultural circle and the one who does not belong to it, will therefore be able to get acquainted with the fundamental and valuable achievements, interests and views of classical Islam on God, the world, life and man. It is a unique opportunity to experience and get to know a great culture in a systematized form, to which the modern world owes so much and on whose foundations so many nations have grown and live today.

Introductory chapters accompanying and necessary comments are given, which make it possible to meaningfully understand and connect the chronologically selected and presented pages of the world's best contemporary Islamologists on various aspects of the cultural history of classical Islam.

Classical culture II

In book II The Classical Culture of Islam it presents the fundamental ideas and institutions of the Islamic community, the political philosophy of Islam and the theory of the caliphate, the foundations of Islamic law and its main institutes, an overview of Arabic and Persian literature, and a presentation of all significant branches and achievements of Islamic art. In the introductory part, the texts of the greatest Islamologists in the world, in the East and in the West, are presented, and the introductory comments are placed in such a way that they give meaning to the selected segments, and give a comprehensive and concluding view of the classical culture of Islam in its basis, idea, carrier, result and, finally, influence.

Introduction to the Qur'an

Introduction to the Qur'an is the first book of its kind in our country, and subject matter and orientation. In it, the basic ideas, institutions, elements and motives of Islamic learning in general are explained meaningfully and from a broader point of view, while the historical, philological, philosophical, cultural and scientific-comparative aspects of the Qur'an as its foundation are specifically and elaborately presented.

In addition, great attention is paid to the meaning of the Qur'an for contemporary Islam, from a theoretical, ethical and social point of view. Thus, a significant, current and methodologically contemporary work on the Qur'an is obtained, which can be very useful for introducing its complex issues and arouse the interest of both the Muslim and non-Muslim cultural public.

Lexicon of Islam

The Lexicon of Islam is conceived as a broad encyclopedic work, like the Encyclopedia of Islam, with the intention of covering the most important religious, cultural, historical and political determinants of the Islamic world, with a special with an emphasis on the so-called central (central) areas of that world.

Muhammed, a.s. – Life

Muhammed, a.s. – Work

Mr. Muhammed's comprehensive book and Hamidullah on the life and works of Muhammad, peace be upon him, the Prophet of Islam, is the capital work of contemporary Islamology. In it, the reader can find all the relevant facts, basic ideas, the program as a whole, specific actions, and a rounded assessment of the character of Muhammad, peace be upon him. And it, as we know, marked a new epoch in world history, was the foundation of a new civilization and culture and a source of inspiration for many transformative works, ideas and institutions.

Muhammedov, a.s., biography from the pen of Mr. M. Hamidullah is the first such work in our language, which is seriously, documented, knowledgeable and comprehensively written. It has, therefore, great popularity both in the East and in the West.

Doctor from the University of Bonn and the Sorbonne in Paris, on the one hand, and highly educated in Islamic science on the other, the writer successfully combined in a harmonious synthesis the rational methodology of Western science and the deep religious sensibility of Eastern cultures.

In this way, an excellent and complex work was realized, which has its recognition and its authority both in the East and in the West. readers.

It is unique, powerful, knowledgeable and effective and deserves, therefore, the full attention and interest of all those who want to be informed about the world-historical personality and work of the Prophet of Islam.