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· University of Azhar, Cairo (Faculty of Arabic Language and Literature) Graduation, 1978


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  • From The Nation, 2003: In his speeches, Ceric has been known to quote the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi as often as he cites the Koran. He has also led calls for an "Islamic avant-garde" to promote human rights and democracy; frequently celebrates the historic and spiritual links among Islam, Christianity and Judaism; and implores Muslims to be careful about using words like "jihad." To Muslims, Ceric says, the word "may mean many good things, but to non-Muslims it means only one thing: violent actions against their faith." For Bosnian Muslims to live among other religions in a small country, he says, is a sign of strength rather than weakness. "I believe neither the weak nor the aggressive will inherit the earth, but the cooperative," Ceric said in a 2001 speech in Vienna titled "Islam Against Terrorism." Ceric is about as tolerant and ecumenical as religious leaders come.
  • According to the website of the Clinton Global Initiative,
    “Dr. Mustafa Ceric is the Raisu-l-Ulama of Islamic Community in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Grand Mufti of Bosnia since 1993. He is also the Grand Mufti of Sanjak, Croatia and Slovenia. He served as an imam in Chicago and Croatia and professor in Bosnia, Malaysia, and the U.S. He is the co-recipient of the 2003 UNESCO Felix Houphouet-Boigny Peace Prize for Contribution to World Peace and recipient of the International Council of Christians and Jews Annual Sir Sternberg Award for exceptional contribution to interfaith understanding. He has delivered numerous lectures and led several workshops on inter-religious and interfaith issues at local and international conferences. Dr. Ceric is a member of several scientific organizations and societies, including the Inter-religious Council of Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Council of 100 Leaders of the World Economic Forum, the European Council for Fatwas and Research, and the World Conference of Religions for Peace”.

  • Ceric, along with Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad bin Talal of Jordan and Shaykh Al-Habib Ali Zain Al-Abidin Al-Jifri of the United Arab Emirates wrote an open letter called “"A Common Word Between Us and You” in October, 2007, in which they spoke of the need for open dialogue and respect between Islamic and Christian voices.

  • From Jihad Watch, 2005: Ceric has never left any doubts about his deep roots in the liberal Bosnian Islamic tradition. But the fact that he does not shy away from maintaining close contacts with the Salafit camp, including one-time Osama bin Laden mentor Sheikh Salman al-Auda from Saudi Arabia, has drawn criticism. "Totally unfounded," says Ceric: "We are only interested in opening ourselves as an Islamic society."Sure enough, he recently even allowed a woman and her film crew to enter the King Fahd Mosque.”

  • From a 2005 interview with Ceric in London (http://www.angelfire.com/hi/nazam/Aceric.html):

Will Bosnia remain a secular state or develop into a theocracy ?
As far as Islam is concerned, all countries belong to one of the following categories: Dar al-Islam, Dar al-Harb or Dar as-Sulh . Each and every Muslim should know the difference between the three groupings and decide which one they are resident in.
In the first category, Islam must be implemented to the furthest extent. Islam can never be implemented perfectly, but in dar al-Islam the government ought to try their best and continue trying; Islam is an ideal that people in nations in this category must strive for.
In a dar al-Harb state, non-Muslims form the majority of the population and Islam is not recognised by the legislature. Hence it cannot be implemented to any degree. This category applies to most Western states.
In the third, intermediary category, Sulh, the situation is such that Islam or the shariah cannot be implemented fully, but the government should endeavour to put it into practice as much as possible.
Bosnia is not in the first category, but the third. Therefore we are obliged to try our best to put Islamic legislation into practice, but it is unrealistic to expect us to implement shariah completely. That's what I want, of course, but it will not happen just like that.


  • On Friday, November 10, 2006 (http://www.westernresistance.com/blog/archives/003360.html) leaders of Bosnia's Muslims (including Ceric) read out a resolution in all of the nation's mosques, according to the newspaper Nezavisne Novine. This resolution "condemns and finds undesirable in Bosnia those who bring unrest into mosques under the excuse of implementing the 'real' faith (Wahhabis)." Ceric went on to say: the most perilous force destabilizing the umma presently is from the inside." The Bosnians, according to Ceric, are "determined in [their] intention to protect the originality of the centuries-long tradition of the Islamic Community in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

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  • (http://www.qantara.de/webcom/show_article.php/_c-478/_nr-835/i.html )In some liberal and middle-class circles, Ceric is accused of speaking with a forked tongue: endorsing dialogue abroad while making conservative and uncompromising demands at home, which – as his critics see it – aim to undermine the secular character of the state and gradually end the separation of state and religion. There is an understandable reason for these objections, according to the journalist Jörg Lau: "It would be better if he didn't have to get involved, but in this highly politicised situation in Bosnia – a very hate-filled situation over the past decades – he had no option but to become political himself. The things he is accused of, for instance not taking a decisive enough stand against the fundamentalist influences coming to Bosnia from the Arab world, are certainly matters of concern," says Lau, continuing: "But he has also said: we rely on foreign aid here, and we sometimes have to accept help from people and powers from whom we would rather not take help. If Europe was to give us more support we could go without this aid and draw clearer lines."


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