An interesting bibliographical project

Abstract

The written word was traditionaly cultivated by the Muslims in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Many among them, particularly those belonging to the educated class, possessed their own libraries with rich collection of books and manuscripts in Oriental languages and Serbo-Croatian language. Osman Asaf Sokolović (1883.-1972.) was owner of a such rich library. As a bibliophil amateur he tried to work out a complete bibliographic compendium of literary creation of the Moslems from Bosnia and Herzegovina, from 1878.-1948. Some parts of this compendium were printed in »Glasnik Vrhovnog islamskog starješinstva u SFRJ«, Sarajevo, from 1955.-1957. and as an independent work 1959.