Mustafa Ejubović

Bosnian scholar

Mustafa Ejubović
Born	1651 Mostar, Bosnia Eyalet, Ottoman Empire
Died	16 July 1707(1707-07-16) (aged 56) Mostar, Bosnia Eyalet, Ottoman Empire
Occupation	Historian

Mustafa Ejubović (1651 – 16 July 1707), also known as Šejh Jujo, was a Bosnian philosopher, historian, writer and Mufti of Ottoman Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Biography

Mustafa Ejubović was born in a Bosnian family in the Herzegovinian town of Mostar in 1651. His father Jusuf Ejubović was a distinguished professor. Young Mustafa taught maktab and madrasa in Mostar before departing for Constantinople to study in 1677.^[1] There he listened to lectures on philosophy, astronomy and mathematics. When he graduated, he got a professorship at a lower madrasa in Constantinople, became famous for his lectures, and soon began to teach.^[2] Ejubović wrote 27 treatises on logic during his lifetime.^[3] IHe contributed to Bosnian literature on his native Bosnian language, but he was also fluent in Arabic, Turkish and Persian.^[4]

Upon his return to Bosnia, Ejubović became the Mufti of Mostar in 1692.^[5] He died on 16 July 1707 in his hometown.^[6]

References

^ Bašagićeva kolekcija orijentalnih rukopisa u Univerzitetskoj knjižnici u Bratislavi i njen značaj za opću i kulturnu historiju Bosne i Hercegovine. Arhiv Hercegovine. 1998. ISBN 9789958521003. Retrieved 17 July 2016.
^ Mahmut?Ehaji?, Rusmir (January 2000). Bosnia the Good: Tolerance and Tradition. ISBN 9789639116870. Retrieved 17 July 2016.
^ Malcolm, Noel (October 1996). Bosnia: A Short History. ISBN 9780814755617. Retrieved 17 July 2016.
^ Devetnaest stoljeća Bosne: historija i kultura Bosne od 6. do 1900. godine. Dinex. 1998. ISBN 9789958972300. Retrieved 17 July 2016.
^ From Codicology to Technology: Islamic Manuscripts and Their Place in Scholarship. Frank & Timme GmbH. 2009. ISBN 9783865961716. Retrieved 17 July 2016.
^ Mekić, Sejad (July 2016). A Muslim Reformist in Communist Yugoslavia: The Life and Thought of Husein Đozo. ISBN 9781315525846. Retrieved 17 July 2016.