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Avdija Salković Pubic Library “Dositej Obradovic“Novi Pazar Holy Months in Islamic Tradition and Bosnians’ Culture of Sanjak of Novi Pazar Abstract: Customs, or as it has become familiar within Bosnians adet, represent a part of the entire cultural heritage of a nation, and they are manifested in a way of behaviour and action of individuals or groups, for them, life significant occasions. Grinding by the time, the customs are transferred from generation to generation and it can be said they are stronger than any laws. Somewhere, they have become the law itself! It happens for a custom, for any reason, to disappear from a human community, and after it, when the community feels the lacks of its beauty, tries to regain it and relive it through folklore and other forms. Probably, as the saddest example of such a condition, it can be stated for Indian tribes of North America and their cultural and general exodus. The paper discusses the HOLY MOTNHS, three holy Islamic months, i.e. a part of the segment from (religious) customs of Bosnians, Bogomils, good Christians, Islamised Slovenians, who live today, except for Bosnia and Herzegovina, still in Sanjak, Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia and worldwide. During writing of it, relevant collections of hadiths (Mohammed's sayings) have been consulted, like with Buhari's and Muslim's, the Quran itself, the work Üçaylar of the Turkish scholar Mustafa Necati Bursali and others. Besides it, the paper contains researches and personal impressions of the author himself. Key words: holy months, Bosnians, Recep, Shaban, Ramadan, chosen nights

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