Islamic Declaration
The Islamic Declaration (Bosnian: Islamska Deklaracija) was written by Alija Izetbegović. Originally published in 1969–70, and republished in 1990 in Sarajevo, it presents his views on Islam and modernization.
Izetbegović was ideologically a pan-Islamist, who participated in the Mladi Muslimani (Young Muslims) organization between 1941 and 1947, before the Tito regime made the organization illegal. The book was later used against him and other pan-Islamists in a trial in Sarajevo in 1983, which resulted in his condemnation to 13 years of penal servitude for an "attack against socialism", and "willingness to build an Islamic State in Bosnia".
In the opinions of historians Noel Malcolm and Ivo Banac, no plan for the transformation of Bosnia into an Islamic state was included in the book, nor in the political program of Izetbegović's SDA (which he founded in 1990).
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