''JU Gazi Husrev-begova medresa, Sarajevo'' (''Javna ustanova Gazi Husrev-begova medresa u Sarajevu''; ) is a

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and

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, a

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, founded on 8 January 1537 CE (26.

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943 AH) and built in

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Gazi Husrev-beg Gazi Husrev-beg ( ota, غازى خسرو بك, ''Gāzī Ḫusrev Beğ''; Modern Turkish: ''Gazi Hüsrev Bey''; 1480–1541) was an Ottoman Bosnian sanjak-bey (governor) of the Sanjak of Bosnia in 1521–1525, 1526–1534, and 1536–1541. He w ...

's second endowment. It was built in the style of the

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madrasas, and was called Kuršumlija because it was covered with a lead roof (lead in Turkish: kurşun).

History

At the Gazi Husrev-beg madrasa classes were attended and the teaching methods and schedules were traditional, modeled on other madrasas of large cities throughout the

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. In his will ( waqf name), Gazi Husrev-beg appointed a

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( muderis) and his madrasa to be a learned man (

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), who would teach the interpretation of the

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(

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), oral tradition (

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), legal philosophy and its topics, such as

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(

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) and Islamic Islamic

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(

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), sharia law institutions. ( usul),

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and its topics, such as

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and

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concerning semantic syntax, and allegorical and non-allegorical significations, linguistic allusion and linguistic signalling (al-Maānī wa 'l-Bayān),

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dogmatics (

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), "and of other sciences, those that require habit and time". The education lasted between 12 and 16 years, the students were not divided into classes but into rings (circles, groups), and at the end of school they received a diploma (

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Reorganization

The madrasa has been reformed several times. and until the country's disintegration, it was a five-year Muslim high school. In 1978, the women's department of the Gazi Husrev-beg Madrasa was established for the first time. The old building of ''Kuršumlija'' has been partially restored and is preserved as a cultural monument under state protection.

Gazi Khusrev-beg madrasa today

Today, the Gazi Husrev-beg Madrasa acts as a high school and college. The training lasts for four years. Classes are conducted in Bosnian according to the

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adopted by the Islamic Community in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Riyaset), and approved by the Ministry of Education and Science of Sarajevo Canton. Students who have completed this high school can continue their education at any faculty in Bosnia and Herzegovina and at many faculties abroad. The madrasa is a boarding school and all regular students live there. This, in addition to regular classes, allows them a variety of extracurricular activities through different sections, clubs and circles. The choir section, which has a dozen recorded audio and video features with Islamic religious songs glorifying

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( ilahija) and songs about famous people from the Islamic milieu ( kasida).

Zemzem publication

The Zemzem newspaper, which has been published continuously since 1968. The name is a reference to a

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known as Zamzam, and situated within the

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National monument

Old Kuršumlija madrasa, and facilities built during Ottoman period in the history of Bosnia and Herzegovina, are designated National Monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina by the Commission to preserve national monuments of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Gazi-Husrev-beg Library

The Gazi Husrev-beg Library is a public library founded in 1537, and is part of a larger complex with Gazi Husrev-beg Medresa. It holds one of the most important collections of

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manuscripts in Bosnia-Herzegovina, including many originally donated by Gazi Husrev-beg. The collection survived through

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and

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. The library also holds a sizable number of books, journals, newspapers, documents and photographs. The library is part of the National Monument designation.

References

Bibliography

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