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Mustafa Cerić

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مصطفى سيريتش

Sarajevo

Bosnian scholar who served as Grand Mufti (Reis-ul-ulema) of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1993 to 2012. Born in 1952 at Veliko Čajno near Visoko, he graduated from the Gazi Husrev-beg Madrasa in Sarajevo and from Al-Azhar (1978), and served as an imam in Chicago, where he took his PhD at the University of Chicago (1986) with a dissertation on the theology of Abu Mansur al-Maturidi. He co-founded the Bosniak Academy of Sciences and Arts (2011) and the World Bosniak Congress (2012), which he presides over, and co-received the UNESCO Félix Houphouët-Boigny Peace Prize in 2003.

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Roles
Scholar · mufti
Region
Anatolia
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Sarajevo

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Place in the story

    sunni-hanafi (documented)

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    Sarajevo

    People and things also explored

    Ali-beg Firdus· Alija Izetbegović· Aziz Alili· Edhem Mulabdić· Edin Džeko· Elvedin Pezić· Fehim Spaho· Hamdija Kreševljaković

    Sources

    • Mustafa Cerić — English Wikipedia
    • Mustafa Cerić — Arabic Wikipedia
    • Mustafa Cerić — Bosnian Wikipedia
    • Mustafa Cerić — Wikidata
    • Interview with Dr Mustafa Cerić, Islamic Community in Bosnia and Herzegovina (English site), c. 2012 — on the schools of Bosnian Islam
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    islam.museum contributors. “Mustafa Cerić”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/mustafa-ceric/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-06.

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