The Kotar Sharia Court of Sarajevo - some data from 1878 until the end of the 19th century

Abstract

This paper contains general information about the archival material stock of the Kotar Sharia Court of Sarajevo, the state of this archival material stock which is kept at the Historical Archives of Sarajevo, and also about the first steps in data processing and collation. This text collects together the data from the scope of the activities of the Kotar Sharia Court of Sarajevo and some curiosities from the archival material stock from 1878 until the end of the 19th century, such as the destruction of the archival material collected before 1878, the cases involving non-Muslims at the Sharia Court, the data on the inhabitans of Sarajevo going on a hajj pilgrimage or going elsewhere abroad, and so forth.