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Mehmed Spaho

محمد سباهو

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Sarajevo → Belgrade

Bosnian politician and lawyer from Sarajevo who took his law doctorate at Vienna in 1908, led the Yugoslav Muslim Organization from 1921, sat in the kingdom's governments as Minister of Forestry and Mining and of Trade and Industry, and defended Muslim religious autonomy and Bosnia's territorial integrity until his sudden death at Belgrade in 1939.

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Roles
Politician · lawyer
Region
Anatolia
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The Colonial Era · The Contemporary Era · The Modern Era Contemporaries: A. K. Fazlul Huq · Abbas Hilmi II · Abd al-Qadir al-Maghribi · Abd al-Rahman Shahbandar · Abd el-Krim

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SarajevoBelgrade

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    Sibling of
    Fehim Spaho
    Born in
    Sarajevo
    Died in
    Belgrade

    People and things also explored

    Fehim Spaho· Sarajevo· Siege of Belgrade (1521)· Siege of Belgrade· Ali-beg Firdus· Alija Izetbegović· Avdo Karabegović· Edhem Mulabdić

    Sources

    • Mehmed Spaho — English Wikipedia
    • Mehmed Spaho — Bosnian Wikipedia
    • Mehmed Spaho — Wikidata
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    islam.museum contributors. “Mehmed Spaho”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/mehmed-spaho/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-31.

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    Fehim Spaho

    Bosnian scholar, writer and translator from Sarajevo, the elder brother of the politician Mehmed Spaho: a qadi and president of the Supreme Sharia Court who became Grand Mufti (reis-ul-ulema) of Yugoslavia in 1938 and held the office until his death in 1942, translating from Turkish, Arabic and Persian, among his works the Thousand and One Nights.