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Oriental Institute in Sarajevo

Coordinates: 43°51′22″N 18°23′51″E / 43.856029°N 18.397563°E / 43.856029; 18.397563
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Oriental Institute in Sarajevo
Orijentalni institut u Sarajevu
Formation15 May 1950 (1950-05-15)
Registration no.4200543100009
Coordinates43°51′22″N 18°23′51″E / 43.856029°N 18.397563°E / 43.856029; 18.397563
Official language
Bosnian
Parent organization
University of Sarajevo
Staff (2015)
19
Websitewww.ois.unsa.ba

The Oriental Institute in Sarajevo (Bosnian: Orijentalni institut u Sarajevu / Оријентални институт у Сарајеву) is an academic institute in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was founded in 1950 by the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina and is part of the University of Sarajevo. but it suffered significant destruction in 1992 during the Siege of Sarajevo.

1992 shelling

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Its premises, research library and complete manuscript collection (more than 2,000 codices and 15,000 other archival material) were deliberately destroyed in shelling on May 18, 1992 by Army of Republika Srpska forces around the besieged city of Sarajevo. According to interviews with eyewitnesses, the building had been hit with a barrage of incendiary munitions, fired from positions on the hills overlooking the town center. No other buildings in the densely built neighborhood were hit. The Institute, which occupied the top floors of a large, four-storey office block on the corner of Veljka Cubrilovica Street and Marshal Tito Boulevard (Sarajevo Centar municipality), was completely burned out, its collections destroyed.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

The manuscript collection of the Oriental institute was one of the richest collections of Oriental manuscripts worldwide. These manuscripts over centuries were written in the wide areas of the East to serve worldwide as life manuals for the people.[1][2][4][5]

Losses also included 5,263 bound manuscripts in Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Hebrew and local arebica - (Bosnian in Arabic script), as well as tens of thousands of Ottoman-era documents. Only about 1% of Institute materials was saved.[1][2][4][5]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c Ljevaković, Abdurahman (17 May 2017). "Na današnji dan spaljen je Orijentalni institut u Sarajevu". www.preporod.com (in Bosnian). Retrieved 21 May 2020.
  2. ^ a b c Dženita Karić (10 February 2014). Markiewicz, Christopher; Shafir, Nir (eds.). "Institute for Oriental Studies in Sarajevo". hazine.info. HAZINE: a Guide to Researching the Middle East and Beyond. Retrieved 22 May 2020.
  3. ^ Andras Riedlmayer (27 September 2007). "Crimes of War - Crimes of Peace: Destruction of Libraries during and after the Balkan Wars of the 1990s" (PDF). (PowerPoint present.): School of Library and Information Science - Simmons University. See slides 1 and 15-17. Archived from the original (ppt/pdf) on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 22 May 2020.
  4. ^ a b c András Riedlmayer (2005). "Convivencia under Fire: Genocide and Book-burning in Bosnia" (PDF). bgs.ba Biblioteka Sarajevo. Sarajevo: YEARBOOK OF INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION OF SLAVICIST LIBRARIANS’. pp. 1–26. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 May 2020. Retrieved 22 May 2020.
  5. ^ a b c Riedlmayer, András (1995). "Erasing the Past: The Destruction of Libraries and Archives in Bosnia-Herzegovina". Middle East Studies Association Bulletin. 29 (1): 7–11. doi:10.1017/S0026318400030418. ISSN 0026-3184. JSTOR 23061201. S2CID 164940150.
  6. ^ "The Official Site of The Bosnian Manuscript Ingathering Project". bmip.info (in Bosnian and English). Bosnian Manuscript Ingathering Project. 2010. Archived from the original on 5 April 2013. Retrieved 22 May 2020.

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