Confessions of a Muslim Humanist

Authors : Enes Karic

Pages : 229-239

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Publication Date : 2021-12-16

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Abstract :*In 2020, a new publication of Sjećanja [Memories] has come out regarding the memoires of Alija Izetbegović, the first president of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1991-1996. To mark the publication, I have written the following commentary which was published last year in Bosnian. This review of his Sjećanja was written as a retrospective review of the receptions of his work over the past 20 years.1 In the work Grundphänomene des menschlichen Daseins [The Basic Phenomena of Human Existence], German philosopher Eugen Fink (1979) argues human life on the whole to develop and unfold within five phenomena lastingly present in manifold and parallel forms: work, love, power, play, and death. Furthermore, Fink concluded human life to mostly end, bend, and form mainly within these five fundamental and overarching phenomena of human existence.
Keywords : Sjećanja, Bosnian, Humanist