Sikirić Family in the Manuscripts of the Bosnians’ Institute in Zürich

Abstract

This work gives some new information on the genealogy of this famous đervish family, founded by Abdurrahman Sirri (1775-1847), whose members were seihs of Nakşibendi Teki in Oglavak near Fojnica. Manuscripts also contain poems and other historical and literary texts by Sirri’s ancestors, grandfather and father, and his grandchildren Behauddin Sikirić and his brother Hamdija. There are also two original poetry collections and other remarks written by Behauddin Sikirić, who ran Oglavak teki during the first two dečades of this century.

Most important manuscript from the collection of the Bosnians’ Institute in Zürich related to the Sikirić family, cailed Divan of Abdurrahman Sirri, contains the register (silsila) of the nakšibendi leaders, of the so cailed, restaurateurs’ (muğaddid) order, that shows which ancestors were recognized before the founder, Muhammed Behauddin Naqsibandi, and which religious scholars this order includes, ali the way to the God’s Prophet Muhammed. Publication of these new information in this work considerably boradens the knowledge of the history of the tesavvuf thought in Bosnia and Herzegovina.