Kako su Bošnjaci videli muslimanski Orijent i europski Zapad krajem 19. i početkom 20. stoljeća?

Abstract

The paper deals with the representation of the Muslim Orient and the European West in the Bosniak culture, especially literature of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In this regard, a special focus is placed on the literary and cultural work of Mehmed-bey Kapetanović Ljubušak, the founding father of modern Bosniak literature, and Safvet-bey Bašagić, the cardinal figure in Bosniak literature and culture of the Revival period. Their literary engagement indicates primarily particular efforts to show the Muslim Orient and the European West as not abhorrent to each other but as compatible, thus advocating their convergence and particular fusion in the literature and culture of Bosniaks in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.