Abstract:
The paper is devoted to the life and work of a Bosnian writer and thinker Abdulvehab
Ilhamiya Žepčevi who was one of most outstanding authors of South-Slavonic Aljamiado
literature. Aljamiado works were written in Bosnian, Serbian and Croatian using Arabic
script adapted to Slavonic languages (Arebica). Žepčevi’s literary output covers works
in Bosnian (as he called his mother tongue), Arabic and Turkish. He wrote mystical
poems and prose, including religious treaties. Ilhamiya was critical towards the rule
of Ottoman Governor Jalaluddin Pasha and probably was killed at his command and
buried in Travnik. Ilhamiya had a significant impact on future generations of Bosnian
Muslim writers.
