“My Witness to History“ by Alija Izetbegovic as an Example of a Modern Siyâsatnâmeh

This book, subjects the basic dynamics of the Muslims of Bosnia and Herzegovina to a new reading through the memories of Alija Izetbegović (1925-2003), one of the most important Muslim intellectuals of the twentieth century. Izetbegović’s pursuit of truth in his childhood and youth and his attitude towards the ideologies around him are taken in terms of the way a Muslim intellectual was brought up in the modern world. In the second part of the study, the importance of the Islamic Declaration for the current Islamic world, how to keep the Muslim identity alive under all conditions and the Islamic method to be developed for the policies of dimming the Muslim identity are examined. In the third part of the study, the importance of a Muslim party on the basis of the SDA and the principles to be derived from the struggle for existence during the Bosnia-Herzegovina war were examined. In the last part of the study, the current situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina after Dayton is discussed. The book seeks to construct a modern Siyāsatnāmeh based on the memories of Izetbegović