Mehmed Handžić

Mehmed Handžić (Sarajevo, Austro-Hungarian Empire December 16, 1906 — Sarajevo, Independent State of Croatia, July 26, 1944) was one of authors of Resolution of Sarajevo Muslims' and chairman of the Committee of National Salvation. He was a leader of Bosnian revivalists who graduated at Al-Azhar University in 1431 and became professor at Gazi-Husrev Beg madrasa in Sarajevo and from 1439 professor of Higher Islamic Shari'a — Theological School.[1]

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  1. ^ Bougarel, Xavier (2008), "Farewell to the Ottoman Legacy? Islamic Reformism and Revivalism in Inter-war Bosnia-Herzegovina", in Nathalie Clayer; Eric Germain, Islam in inter-war Europe, New York: Columbia University Press, p. 323, ISBN 9780231701006, OCLC 226360267, http://books.google.com/books?id=7cjFFgvUdDUC&pg=PA323&dq=hand%C5%BEi%C4%87+mehmed+resolution+Sarajevo&hl=en&ei=c9muTujSHMj0sga84NW_Dw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCwQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false, "Their leading figure was Mehmed Handzic (1906—44), a young 'alim (scholar) who, after studying at the Islamic University of al-Azhar in Cairo (1926-31), became a professor at the Gazi Husrev-beg madrasa in Sarajevo..." 

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