Uwagi o językach i literaturach bośniackiej, serbskiej i chorwackiej pisanych alfabetem arabskim

Abstract

The article is devoted to the Balkan writing in Arabic script (arabica / arebica), called also alhamijado / aljamijado in Bosnian, Serbian and Croatian languages. The appearance of such cultural phenomenon is connected with the history of Balkan as a part of the Ottoman Empire. In this text I describe the arebica with its special characters, unknown in Arabic, Turkish and Persian, used in Slavonic languages. Then I present the oldest known text in arabica, called Chirvat türkisi (“Croatian Song”, 1588/1589) and the development of this literature in several genres – both religious and secular. The next part of the article is devoted do 2 most outstanding representatives of alhamijado literature: Muhamed Hevai Uskufi (XVII C.), Abdulvehab Ilhamija (XVIII C.) and Abdurrahmana Sirrija (XVIII/XIX C.). The last paragraphs are devoted to the “renaissance” of alhamijado at the beginnings of the XXI C.