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Safvet-beg Bašagić

صفوت بك باشاغيتش

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Sarajevo

Bosnian historian, poet and politician from Nevesinje, called the father of the Bosnian Renaissance: co-founder of the journal Behar (1900) and the Gajret society (1903), president of the Bosnian Diet (1910), compiler of some 700 biographies of Bosnians in Islamic literature, and collector of the manuscript library inscribed on UNESCO's Memory of the World register.

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Roles
writer · Poet · Historian · Politician
Region
Anatolia
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Life in time

18251850187519001925195019752000
The Colonial Era · The Contemporary Era · The Modern Era Contemporaries: Abd al-Qadir al-Maghribi · Abdul Haq · Abdülmecid II · Abdur Rahim · Abdurreshid Ibrahim

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Sarajevo

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    Child of
    Ibrahim-beg Bašagić
    Died in
    Sarajevo

    People and things also explored

    Ibrahim-beg Bašagić· Sarajevo· Ali-beg Firdus· Alija Izetbegović· Edhem Mulabdić· Edin Džeko· Fehim Spaho· Hamdija Kreševljaković

    Sources

    • Safvet-beg Bašagić — English Wikipedia
    • Safvet-beg Bašagić — Bosnian Wikipedia
    • Safvet-beg Bašagić — Wikidata
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    islam.museum contributors. “Safvet-beg Bašagić”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/safvet-beg-basagic/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-31.

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    Ibrahim-beg Bašagić

    Bosnian official and politician from Nevesinje, of the Redžepagić family: an Ottoman district governor (kaymakam) who briefly sat in the Ottoman parliament, then served the Austro-Hungarian administration and from 1893 headed Bosnia's provincial waqf commission; he also wrote Turkish poetry under the pen name Edhem, and was the father of the historian Safvet-beg Bašagić.