Ljiljan was a Bosnian weekly news-political and cultural news magazine. It is named after the golden Bosnian lily, which is considered the national symbol of the Bosniak people. It was founded by the Party of Democratic Action (SDA) (Bosnian: Stranka demokratske akcije) in 1990 as a successor to Muslimanski Glas (Muslims' Voice), the official bulletin of the party. With the name change it obtained a formal editorial independence, though it still reflected conservative Bosniak political positions, close to the SDA party.[1] For instance, figures connected to Ljiljan have been known to oppose mixed marriages between Bosniaks, Croats and Serbs,[2] deeming them an imposition from the Socialist times.[3][4] It was published in Sarajevo and distributed in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and abroad.[1] In 1996 its circulation was 60,000 copies, of which 85% abroad.[5]
In a 1998 study, Ljiljan was found to proactively employ Turkish, Arabic, and Persianloanwords over Slavic equivalents as a symbolic affirmation of Islamic identity.[6] In a similar 2002 study, the magazine was also found, along with Dnevni avaz, which also has a Bosniak nationalist orientation, to favour a conservative approach to linguistic standards of the Bosnian language rather than liberally employing terms which are considered "Serbian" or "Croatian."[7]
↑ Sadowski, Yahya M. (1995). "Bosnia's Muslims: A Fundamentalist Threat?". The Brookings Review. 13 (1): 15. doi:10.2307/20080522. ISSN0745-1253. Pluralists now dominate both the leadership of the SDA and the Bosnian government. But if the war and the occupation and the terror continue, Bosniak nationalism may make a comeback. Prominent members of the SDA are still campaigning for this option. Enes Karić, Minister of Culture, has tried to forbid Sarajevo radio stations from playing songs written by Serbs. Džemaludin Latić, editor of the SDA weekly Ljiljan, advocates a ban on mixed marriages.
↑ Helms, Elissa (2008). "East and West Kiss: Gender, Orientalism, and Balkanism in Muslim-Majority Bosnia-Herzegovina". Slavic Review. 67 (1): 99–100. doi:10.2307/27652770. ISSN0037-6779. During the war, Džemaludin Latić, a prominent pan-Islamist, wrote a series of articles in the Bosniac nationalist magazine Ljiljan warning of the dangers of "mixed marriages" between Muslims and non-Muslims. He accused those who praised this practice of seeking to mould Bosniacs into "a sad copy of European Satanism," thereby leading the nation into "total spiritual capitulation." Proponents of mixed marriage were characterized as "secularized and Eurocentric" old communists who have forgotten "the neighborhood with Mother and the mosque in the center" from which they came. Europe thus represented a rejection of religion, morality, and tradition, in short, of the essence of Bosniac identity, symbolized by the "mother" as the guardian of the family and spiritual purity.
The Bosnian language is the standardized variety of Serbo-Croatian mainly used by ethnic Bosniaks. Bosnian is one of three such varieties considered official languages of Bosnia and Herzegovina, along with Croatian and Serbian. It is also an officially recognized minority language in Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Kosovo.
Alija Izetbegović was a Bosnian politician, lawyer, Islamic philosopher and author, who in 1992 became the first president of the Presidency of the newly independent Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He served in this role until 1996, when he became a member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, serving until 2000.
The Party of Democratic Action is a Bosniak nationalist, islamist, conservative political party in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Muslims as a designation for a particular ethnic group, refers to one of six officially recognized constituent peoples of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The term was adopted in 1971, as an official designation of ethnicity for Yugoslav Slavic Muslims, thus grouping together a number of distinct South Slavic communities of Islamic ethnocultural tradition, among them most numerous being the modern Bosniaks of Bosnia and Herzegovina, along with some smaller groups of different ethnicity, such as Gorani and Torbeši. This designation did not include Yugoslav non-Slavic Muslims, such as Albanians, Turks and Romani.
The Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, commonly referred to as Socialist Bosnia or simply Bosnia, was one of the six constituent federal states forming the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. It was a predecessor of the modern-day Bosnia and Herzegovina, existing between 1945 and 1992, under a number of different formal names, including Democratic Bosnia and Herzegovina (1943–1946) and People's Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1946–1963).
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Bosniak – Bošnjak, may refer to:
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Serb Muslims or Serb Mohammedans are ethnic Serbs who are Muslims by their religious affiliation.
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