The Importance of the Study of Heritage in the Persian Language in the Institute for Oriental Studies

Abstract

The researchers of the Institute for Oriental Studies have been aware that culture is the foundation of individual and national identity, and in that way we protect the centuries-old cultural heritage of Bosnia and Herzegovina in order to be equal among the cultures of the world.

The examples of Bulbulistan by Fawzi Mostari from 18th century, qasidas and ghazals of Hasan Ziyai (16th cent.), Zekeriya Sukkeri (17th cent.), Ahmad Talib (17th cent.), Mehmed Rešid (17th cent.) and Ahmad Khatem (18th cent.) and many other Bosniak poets, who were introduced to us owing to the research on their poetry at the Institute for Oriental Studies, show us that Bosniak authors left valuable examples of their creativity in the Persian language. Certain philological works or linguostylistic and literary-theoretical analysis of the verses of Bosniak authors in Persian were published primarily in the journal Prilozi za orijentalnu filologiju, and other journals of academic or popular profile.

Thus, the perspectives of BH Oriental studies, linked to the Iranian studies, lie in education of the Iranists, who will research and scientifically interpret the cultural heritage of Bosniaks in Persian and thus give it the right place in the whole science and culture of peoples of Bosnia and Herzegovina.