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Frequency | Biweekly |
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Publisher | Ademaga Mešić |
Founder | Edhem Mulabdić, Safvet-beg Bašagić, Osman Nuri Hadžić |
First issue | 1 May 1900 |
Final issue | 1911 [1] |
Country | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
Based in | Sarajevo |
Language | Bosnian, Croatian |
Behar was a Bosniak political magazine published twice monthly between 1900 and 1911. [2] The word behar (blossom in Bosnian) derives from Persian bahār (spring, blossom). [3] It was established in 1900 by Bosniak intellectuals Edhem Mulabdić, Safvet-beg Bašagić, and Osman Nuri Hadžić, assisted financially by Ademaga Mešić.
During the first eight years of existence it was primarily focused on religious and family topics. [2] Magazine published articles on Islamic past and religion, literally works of local authors and translations of Oriental literature. [2] In VII volume it regularly published 4 pages of text in Ottoman Turkish, while from the IX volume it was also marked as a Croatian magazine. [2] The magazine was published in Gaj's Latin alphabet. [2]
In addition to Bašagić and Mulabdić, Musa Ćazim Ćatić, Džemaludin Čaušević, and Ljudevit Dvorniković also served as editors during the decade that the magazine was published. [4]
A 1927 revival, called Novi behar (New Blossom), by Hamdija Kreševljaković and Husein Dubravić lasted until 1943. [5]