Review article
A SHORT SURVEY OF WRITTEN TEXTS IN HERZEG BOSNIA FROM THE FIRST STONE EPIGRAPHS TO THE BEGINNINGS OF THE 20th CENTURY AND MODERN LITERARY STREAMS
Dubravka Poljak-Makaruha
Abstract
After the fall of Herzeg Bosnia under the Turkish rule, the cultural, spiritual and agricultural life of the inhabitants in the area had been completely changed. Under the patronage of Islam, a very strong cultural life began te be developed in the Turkish, as official, and Persian, as recognized, language. Numerous works began to be translated and copied, while under the influence of the orient cultures and literatures there appeared a great number of literary works, especially in poetry. In the paper, only a few works from the period have been mentioned.
In the late 17th century in Herzeg Bosnia, a very interesting phenomenon in the Moslem literature appeared. It is, in the first place, a continuation of a great number of literaty works in the Croatian language and, as well as in Arab, so-called Arabic. This kind of literature is named alhamijado literature and is due to the middle-educated class of the Moslems in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Keywords
Hrčak ID:
132776
URI
Publication date:
15.11.1991.
Visits: 1.984 *