Elvedin Pezić

Elvedin Pezić (born 1977 in Travnik) is a Bosnian preacher whom El-Asr magazine counts among the most listened-to religious authorities of the Bosnian-speaking area, filling mosques, halls, theatres and sports arenas wherever he appears. ¹ He posts lecture recordings daily, and his official Facebook page counted over 372,000 followers in an August 2026 news report. ²

Pezić was born in 1977 in Travnik and completed primary and secondary school in Busovača; still a schoolboy, he joined the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina and fought in its ranks until the end of the war. ¹ Seeking religious knowledge, he spent a school year in the Emirates and a year in Jordan, then entered the Islamic University of Medina, completing its Arabic Language Institute and then its Faculty of Sharia. ¹ From 2011 he pursued postgraduate study at Qassim University in Saudi Arabia and earned a master's degree. ¹ On 8 December 2023 he defended his doctoral dissertation, "Electronic commerce and network marketing through the prism of Islamic law" (206 pages), at the Faculty of Islamic Studies in Novi Pazar, under the mentorship of Hakija Kanurić, and received the doctorate in Islamic sciences in the field of fiqh. ¹

Pezić returned to Bosnia in 2005 and settled in Sanski Most, where his lectures revived religious life in that part of the country; in 2009 he moved to Sarajevo and emerged as one of its most devoted preachers. ¹ His manner — explaining the rulings of the faith to ordinary people in simple, intelligible language — made him one of the most loved lecturers in Bosnia and Herzegovina; he launched the first fatwa page in the Bosnian language and, in a series of more than 180 programmes, answered between 6,000 and 7,000 questions publicly. ¹ His lecture recordings are posted daily, and his audience spans Kosovo, Bosnia, Sandžak and the diaspora. ²

Pezić has written several books, among them "Islam u vremenu" (2017), "Namaz, radost oka moga" (2018) and "Slast dove" (2021), as well as a manual on marital intimacy in Islam; he has written dozens of pieces for Islamic magazines and portals and serves as a sharia reviewer for many Islamic books and translations from Arabic. ¹

On 13 August 2026 Kosovo Police detained Pezić in the village of Vitomirica near Peć, hours before a lecture and book promotion scheduled for him in Dobruša (Istok municipality) alongside Mithad Çeman; the stated reason was an allegation of spreading Wahhabi ideology, and no official statement or known outcome existed when the report was published. ² This is recorded as a report of an unresolved allegation, not as a finding, and not as the museum's verdict. The same report calls him a "Salafist preacher", a movement descriptor in news prose rather than a statement of his own school.

His Facebook page was followed by 334,000 people at the time of El-Asr's report in December 2023. ¹ By August 2026 his official page counted over 372,000 followers, per Srpske.rs. ² The figures are dated platform counts as the sources report them.

• El-Asr magazine report (December 2023) on Pezić's doctoral defence at Novi Pazar, including his detailed biography. ¹
• Srpske.rs report (14 August 2026) on his detention by Kosovo Police in Vitomirica. ²