Porodica Serdarević sa posebnim osvrtom na Muhameda Seida i Abdulaha Serdarevića

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Muhamed Seid Serdarević (1882-1918) came from a respectable ulema family from Zenica. His father was his first religious teacher. After that he entered the Gazija’s Hanikah, and after that Darul-Muallimin. After the completion of his education, tili 1910 he worked as a muallim, and after that till 1913 he was the editor of the newspaper „Muallim".
Just like the Islamic reformers, Muhamed Abduhu and Džemaludin Afgani, Serdarević together with some other Muslim intellectuals, gave a significant contribution to the reaffirmation of Islamic thought and the reforms of religious life in these parts. The work in the „Muallim was an opportunity to express his visionary and Creative spirit.
In 1913, after his father’s death, he was appointed imam of the Central penitentiary in Zenica and the muderris of Sultan Ahmed’s medresa. As a prominent social and public figure, he was the president of the Antialchocolic Society „Itihad“ Zenica and the president of the Muslim Society of the Muallims and Imams of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
He was also active as a writer. His publication „Fikhul-ibadet“ from 1917 is still used as a textbook in the medresas. The main characteristics of Serdarević’s work are his Creative writing, his translations, his work on reforms, his activity in the professional association, the educational work in the Sultan Ahmed medresa in Zenica and the writing of textbooks in the vernacular.
Abdullah Serdarević (1898-1950), like his broteher Muhammed, is one of the rare progressive Muslim intellectuals of his time. His main activity was the improvement of the work in Sultan Ahmed’ s medresa in Zenica. It can be stated, almost with certainty, that none of the muderrises of this educational institution were so devoted to it as Abdullah Serdarević. This was due to the fact of family tradition on one hand, and his feeling that the Muslims of the Zenica region should be given the opportunity to become literate and to acquire necessary education in the spirit of their time and conditions, on the other. Inspired by the ideas of his brother, he worked on the modernization of the teaching process, and that resulted in the inclusion of secular subjects, enrollement of both male and female students in the Medresa and the engagement of non-Muslim teachers for secular subjects. As a result of his honest approach to work and his achievements, his personality is still vividly present in the memory of the Muslims of Zenica.