Hfz. Mahmud Traljić

Hafiz Mahmud Traljić (Sarajevo, April 28, 1918 – Sarajevo, December 28, 2003) is a cultural historian, researcher, professor, Islamic official of Bosniak origin from Bosnia and Herzegovina.[1] Belonged to a group of writers of Bosniak origin between the two wars who defined themselves as Croatian writers during their lifetime and who, by their overall activity, belong to Bosniak and Croatian literature. Born in a respectable Sarajevo family. After completing elementary school, he was accepted to study at the Gazi Husrev Bey madrasa. After that, he enrolled in the Higher Islamic Sharia-Theological School in Sarajevo in 1940, from which he graduated in 1944. After completing his studies, he got a job in Gazi Husrev-beg's library, where he worked until 1947, and at the same time held the position of professor in Gazi Husrev-beg's women's madrasa and was an imam in Sarajevo's Sinan Vojvoda Hatun mosque in Vratnik. In June 1947, he was arrested and sentenced to 10 years in prison in a staged communist trial by Muslim scholars, scholars and prominent people. Convicted in a group that included: Kasim Dobrača, Derviš Korkut, Jusuf Tanović, Kasim Turković, Salih Udžvarić, Abdullah Dervišević, Ibrahim Karalić, Muharem Avdihodžić, Hasan Avdić, Mustafa Hebović and Hasan Ljevaković. He served nine years and eight months. He was released from prison in January 1957. Hamdija Kreševljaković's acquaintance with Branko Čulić enabled him to get a job in the National and University Library of BiH in Sarajevo in the specialist collection department, where he worked for 27 years until his retirement in 1984. At the same time, he was an imam in the Ćurčića Jahja Pasha mosque in Sarajevo, where he guarded the mihrab until 1996. For many years, he held the positions of nazir in Gazi Husrev-beg's vaquf, as well as devrihan, juzhan and sahib-nokta in Gazi Husrev-beg's mosque. Long-time president and regular member of the Commission for Hearing New Hafiz. He set the standard and rules for learning hifz. He was the muhafiz of many of our present-day hafiz. He was a professor of kiraeta at the Faculty of Political Sciences from 1987 to 1992. When the postgraduate study was opened, he taught the same subject to postgraduates. The best connoisseur of the history of Muslim institutions and famous Bosniaks in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Sandžak. In the last years of his life, he did not go out due to poor health. He died on December 28, 2003 and was buried in harem of Čurčića (Jahja Pasha) Mosque in Sarajevo.