Library of Shaikh 'Abdurrahman Sirriya from Oglavak

Abstract

Shaikh 'Abdurrahman Sirriya, the dervish and the poet in Serbo-Croatian and Turkish, bequeathed a very large estate and a valuable library. The library was estimated at 4, 722 units of the Turkish currency, plus two mushafs in the total valus of 420 units of money. This paper briefly presents Shaikh Sirriya's biography and gives the list of all the books (manuscripts) found in the library after his death together with the names of their authors and the subject matters they treat. The books the originals of which were not found in the library have been listed according to the records of the former Islamic law court in Sarajevo (no. 82 p. 87) from year 1253/1847. The paper also contains the writings about Sirrya and their authors as well as the names of the translators of his poems into Serbo-Croatian.