Ismet Muftić
Ismet Muftić (born 1876, Žepče – died 1945, Zagreb) was a Bosnian imam and the first Islamic Mufti of Croatia.
He became mufti of the Croatian capital Zagreb in 1917 after the Islamic community was reformed there. His main task was to attempt to build a permanent mosque in the city. Due to lack of funds, the community was not able to achieve this on its own. Plans to build a mosque at Zelengaj in the 1930s did not succeed, however.[1] In March 1939 Muftić was one of the founders and vice president of Društvo bosansko-hercegovačkih Hrvata u Zagrebu (Society of the Bosnian-Herzegovinian Croats in Zagreb).[2]
However, after the Independent State of Croatia was formed, the ruling Ustaša party sought to better accommodate the Croatian Muslims. Muftić and the Muslim community put forth a proposition to turn the Orthodox church on Preradović Square into a mosque. In the end, it was decided that the Meštrović Pavilion would take that role. To that effect, three minarets were added to the building.[3]
In 1945, at the end of the Second World War, Muftić was executed by the Yugoslav Partisans. In 1949 the Pavilion's minarets were taken down, and the building returned to its old usage.[3]
References
- ^ "POVIJEST MEDŽLISA ISLAMSKE ZAJEDNICE ZAGREB". Archived from the original on 2012-07-09. Retrieved 2013-10-23.
- ^ Zlatko Hasanbegović, Muslimani u Zagrebu 1878.-1945. Doba utemeljenja, Medžlis Islamske zajednice u Zagrebu-Institut društvenih znanosti Ivo Pilar, Zagreb, 2007, pp. 175:
"Muftić je u ožujku 1939., s većim brojem zagrebačkih muslimana, sudjelovao u osnutku Društva bosansko-hercegovačkih Hrvata u Zagrebu čiji je predsjednik bio povjesničar Ćiro Truhelka. Izabran je i za potpredsjednika društva koje je u javnosti zastupalo je koncept hrvatske nacionalne pripadnosti Bosne i Hercegovine, i to u vrijeme pregovora oko određivanja konačnih granica Banovine Hrvatske."
- ^ a b "Povijest zgrade". hdlu.hr. 27 August 2008. Retrieved 29 February 2016.
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