Džemaludin Čaušević
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28 December 1870 Arapuša, Bosnia Vilayet, Ottoman Empire |
| Died | 28 March 1938 (aged 67) Sarajevo, Kingdom of Yugoslavia |
Mehmed Džemaludin ef. Čaušević (Arebica: مُحَمَّدٌ جَمَالُالدِّينِ أف. چاۆشهوٖىݘ, Cyrillic: Мехмед Џемалудин еф. Чаушевић; 28 December 1870 – 28 March 1938) was a Bosniak reformer and imam.
Mehmed Džemaludin Čaušević was born in the northwestern Bosnian village Arapuša, 12 km near town of Bosanska Krupa. His earliest education was obtained at the hands of his father, Ali-hodža Čaušević, who was a member of the local Islamic clergy. As a teenager Čaušević was enrolled into the madrasa of the nearby city of Bihać where he attracted the attention of its foremost instructor, Mehmed Sabit Ribić (who was also the city’s Mufti).
He was sent to Istanbul at the age of seventeen to receive a higher education. While in the Ottoman capital Čaušević finished his education in Islamic Studies with high marks and subsequently enrolled in the empire’s law school, the Mekteb-i Hukuk. It was here that he was first exposed to the ongoing modernization that had been instituted in the empire over the last several decades.
There are sources indicating that during the summer months while a student at the Mekteb-i Hukuk, he would, on invitation, travel back to Bosnia in order to speak at various venues. It was already apparent from his lectures at this time that Čaušević was receptive to notions of both religious and societal reform. Moreover he spent some time in Cairo, where he intermittently attended the lectures of the famous Arab reformer Muhammad Abduh (1849-1905). These lectures appear to have had a considerable impact on Čaušević, since he refers to ‘Abduh in his later writings as Ustaz-i muhterem, “Respected Teacher.” Upon graduating from the Mekteb-i Hukuk, in 1901, Čaušević departed from Istanbul and returned to Bosnia.
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