Some marginalia about life and career of mufti Ali Fehmi - effendi Džabić

Abstract

Analysing some written evidences as well as spoken tradition the writer reveals a few details from the life and career of Ali Fehmi-effendi Džabić the mufti of Mos­tar (1884-1900), stressing especially the case of kidnapping a Muslim girl named Fata Omanović from a village Kulti-Livač near Mostar. This event which took place in 1899. was the signal for creating of Herzegovinian (and later also Bosnian) Muslim's movement, which at first sought religious and educational autonomy and ended as a political organization.