The Autobiography in Verse of Mustafa Huremi Al-Mostari

Abstract

Among the writers and poets from Mostar, Herzegovina, who wrote in Arabic, Turkish, or Persian, there was also Mustafa ibn al-ḥāğğ Aḥmad ibn Ḫurram al-Mostari, also known under the pseudonym of Ḫurremi. He lived at the end of the seventeenth and at the beginning of the eighteenth centuries. He is known as the author of the work Niẓām al-'ulamā', a biography of the mufti and muderris in Mostar, Mustafa Ejubović, called Šejh Yūyo.

His autobiography in verse with its Serbo-Croatian translation has been published here. It is interesting as an attempt of a man from this country to relate briefly in verse and in the Turkish language some events of his life.