Muzułmańskie echa wizyty Hadży Seraji Szapszała w Jugosławii w 1936 roku

Abstract

In the summer of 1936 Hadji Seraya Khan Shapshal undertook an academic excursion to Belgrade and Sarajevo accompanied by a group of Oriental studies students from Vilnius. His visit made a great impression on Muslim circles in both Poland and Yugoslavia. Fetih Bajraktarević and Mehmed Handžić, two eminent representatives of the Muslim communities in Yugoslavia, spoke publicly on the religion of Karaites which was identified as lying somewhere between Judaism and Islam. They also emphasized the important role of Shapshal as a spiritual leader, Orientalist and collector.