Edhem Mulabdić

Edhem Mulabdić (19 October 186229 January 1954) was a Croatian and Bosnian Muslim writer He is best known as the author of Zeleno busenje, the first Bosnian Muslim novel. He edited many political magazines including: Bošnjak, Gajret, Mearif, and Nada.

Biography Edhem Mulabdić was born in Maglaj in 1862, where he finished Islamic elementary school maktab and then got a job as a clerk. From Brčko he was transferred to Sarajevo, where he worked as a teacher at the Islamic school Dural-mualimmin. Soon he was elected to a national assembly in Maglaj. He stayed in that position until January 1929. Together with Safvet beg Bašagić and Osman Nuri Hadžić, Mulabdić would be one of the founders and originators of several welfare associations and publications, such as Behar in 1900 and Gajret in 1903.

His novel Zeleno busenje is regarded as the most significant work of this author, as well as the first Bosnian Muslim novel. Edhem Mulabdić's works would come to have huge importance of the development of the Bosniak culture and education in late 19th and early 20th century.