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materials would enable us to protect the Hajji-Sinan’s tekke holdings in an adequate manner. Digital
recordings on the electronic carriers, such as compact discs, would in most cases fulfill the demands
of the researchers, enable a more efficient cooperation in the exchange of the documents with similar
institutions in the country and throughout the region, and we would achieve the main goal of this
project, i.e. we would be able to protect these rare and valuable materials from manual usage and
further devastation.
World War II (in 1942), and in the artillery attacks during the aggression on Sarajevo and Bosnia and
Herzegovina in 1992-1995. Today, tekke has been repaired, restoration and conservation works have
been carried out, and further damage has been prevented.
For centuries, tekke has served and still serves, as a center where, apart from the regular dervish
rites, tesavvuf was taught, and people read and studied the most important literary works in Arabic,
Turkish and Persian languages – works with certain ethical-mystical moral and contents.
Creation of quality archival software, in accordance with the international standards for the
description of the archival materials, holdings and collections is currently underway. In that way, the
digitalized materials will be made available to researches via Internet as well.
Archival holding of Hadji Sinan’s tekke – basic characteristics
The archival materials contained in Hadji-Sinan’s tekke holdings make part of the Oriental
collection of the Historical Archive Sarajevo. The archive took over the collection in 1959. The
documents have been archivistically processed and arranged, and the materials encompass the period
from 1592 to 1945. It contains 31 archival boxes; 3.1 meters in length. Documents are in Turkish,
Arabic, Persian and Bosnian languages, and the alphabets represented are Arabic and Latin.
The structure of the holding is as follows:
Documents: 132 documents (silsila-namas, hilafet-namas, etc.);
Manuscripts and manuscript fragments: 223 manuscript codices;
Printed books: 147 printed books;
Silsile-name (sequence of dervish orders through history) from Muhammad a.s. to Sheikh
Mehmed from Zvornik to whom this document was issued in 1836 (language: Turkish and Arabic,
script: Arabic) dimensions: 909 x 34, sheet 1;3
For start, the archivists in the Historical Archive Sarajevo have prepared a digital inventory of the
mentioned holdings, in MS Excel, applying the scientific transcription for the texts written in Arabic
letters, with the aim to make the IT technicians’ job easier.
Keywords:
Tekke, archival holdings, documentary files, manuscripts, digitalization, microfilming, protection
and usage of archival materials, common cultural heritage;
Hadji Sinan’s tekke in Sarajevo – history
One of the orthodox dervish orders in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Macedonia and Kosovo
was Kadiria order, which had its centers in almost every major city in the mentioned regions. In
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kadiria tekkes existed in Sarajevo, Travnik, Jajce, Zvornik, etc. Kadiria
tekkes in Bosnia and Herzegovina were mostly founded during 16th and 17th centuries, when the order
was spreading in Anatolia and Rumelia, Syria, Egypt and other provinces of the Ottoman Empire.
Foundation of Silahdar Mustafa-pasha’s (Hadji Sinan’s) tekke in Sarajevo, in mid-17th century –
sometime between 1638 and 1640 – was particularly significant for expansion of the Kadiria order.
At the same time, the tekke represents a valuable monument to Ottoman – Turkish architecture in
Sarajevo.1 Tekke is placed in the Northern part of Sarajevo. According to o