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Avdija Salković
Pubic Library “Dositej Obradovic“Novi Pazar

Holy Months in Islamic Tradition and Bosnians’ Culture of Sanjak of
Novi Pazar

Abstract: Customs, or as it has become familiar within Bosnians adet,
represent a part of the entire cultural heritage of a nation, and they are manifested
in a way of behaviour and action of individuals or groups, for them, life significant
occasions. Grinding by the time, the customs are transferred from generation to
generation and it can be said they are stronger than any laws. Somewhere, they
have become the law itself! It happens for a custom, for any reason, to disappear
from a human community, and after it, when the community feels the lacks of its
beauty, tries to regain it and relive it through folklore and other forms. Probably, as
the saddest example of such a condition, it can be stated for Indian tribes of North
America and their cultural and general exodus.
The paper discusses the HOLY MOTNHS, three holy Islamic months, i.e. a
part of the segment from (religious) customs of Bosnians, Bogomils, good Christians,
Islamised Slovenians, who live today, except for Bosnia and Herzegovina, still in
Sanjak, Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia and worldwide. During writing of it, relevant
collections of hadiths (Mohammed’s sayings) have been consulted, like with
Buhari’s and Muslim’s, the Quran itself, the work Üçaylar of the Turkish scholar
Mustafa Necati Bursali and others. Besides it, the paper contains researches and
personal impressions of the author himself.

Key words: holy months, Bosnians, Recep, Shaban, Ramadan, chosen nights