Islamic Declaration

The Islamic Declaration ( Bosnian Islamska deklaracija ) is a programmatic, panislamistisch embossed font for religious renewal of the Muslims, Alija Izetbegovic is considered its author. They emerged in the mid -1960s in Bosnia and Herzegovina (then a constituent republic of Yugoslavia ) as a joint work of some leaders of the "Young Muslims " ( Mladic Muslimani ), but was not initially published and circulated only in the inner circles of the Bosnian Muslim opposition.

Content

Izetbegovic condemned in the Declaration, among other things nationalism as divisive instrument and called communism as inadequate system. In the polemical - philosophical treatise he initially wanted to offer to Western audiences Islam as an alternative to confrontation of the Cold War. In the ideological conflict between capitalism and socialism, Islam was the " third way ". The Islamic countries could ensure their survival only by a merger in the form of a federation of states. However, the Islamic world was in a state of backwardness. Reasons are said to be the dogmatic interpretation of religion by conservative scholars and on the other hand, the uncritical adoption of Western political and philosophical concepts such as nationalism. A "rebirth" was needed, that is the production of an Islamic order as a synthesis of religion and politics. This should be done without violence in societies with majority Islamic populations.

History

In 1970, the Islamic Declaration was first published as a book and found primarily in Islamic countries greater attention. Thus, 100,000 copies were printed in Arabic in Kuwait. In Yugoslavia itself remained largely unknown until it was found in the early 1980s as part of government measures against the Muslim opposition during a house search.

According to the indictment of 13 Muslim intellectuals, the Declaration was a manifesto for the creation of a Muslim state within Yugoslavia. So it says, "there will be no peace or coexistence between the Islamic faith and non-Islamic social and political institutions." Izetbegovic stated, however, that there is no evidence of Bosnia or Yugoslavia existed in the text, let alone the fact that Bosnia should be made an ethnically cleansed state. The court sentenced him in 1983 to fourteen years in prison for " call for destruction of Yugoslavia ". The sentence was reduced on appeal. 1988 Izetbegovic was released prematurely.

1990 Islamska deklaracija was made available in a reprint of the Yugoslav public and understood by many as a political program for Bosnia - Herzegovina. What role do they actually for political action Izetbegovic and his party Stranka Demokratske Akcije (SDA ) played since the 1990s, is controversial.